bleg
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Etymology 1 edit
Unknown
Noun edit
bleg (plural blegs)
- (Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
- 4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo[3]:
- Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)
- 7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo[4]:
- #*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.
- 29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, in Sunderland Echo[5]:
- The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.
- 10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo[6]:
- Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.
Etymology 2 edit
Blend of blog + beg.[1] British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002,[2] although earlier usage may have occurred.
Noun edit
bleg (plural blegs)
- (Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
- 2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic[7]:
- Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
- 2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair[8], archived from the original on 14 January 2013:
- Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
- 2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After[9], Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, acknowledgments section, page 267:
- This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]
Verb edit
bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)
- (Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
- 2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
- The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
- 2009 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online:
- About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
- 2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
- Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
- 2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:
- Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.
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References edit
- ^ Ben Zimmer (2010 November 11) “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]: “The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).”
- ^ John Derbyshire (2002 August 1) “July Diary”, in National Review Online[2], archived from the original on 2002-10-19: “The verb "to bleg" — coined, I believe, by yours truly — means "to use your blog to beg for assistance from readers.")”
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Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Related to blege.
Adjective edit
bleg
Inflection edit
Inflection of bleg | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Indefinte common singular | bleg | blegere | blegest2 |
Indefinite neuter singular | blegt | blegere | blegest2 |
Plural | blege | blegere | blegest2 |
Definite attributive1 | blege | blegere | blegeste |
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. |
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
bleg
- imperative of blege
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic благъ (blagŭ), from Proto-Slavic *bolgъ (“good”). Compare Serbo-Croatian blag.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
bleg m or n (feminine singular bleagă, masculine plural blegi, feminine and neuter plural blege)
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