Did you perchance mean blah?
Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. UK, informal, transitive To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
- v. UK, informal More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
- v. UK, informal, transitive To beg, to cadge.
- v. UK, informal, transitive To steal.
- v. Polari To pick up someone.
- v. UK, informal, 1960s To persuade.
- v. UK, informal, 1940s To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.
- n. UK, informal A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
- n. An armed robbery.
- adj. UK, informal Fake, not genuine.
Etymologies
- From French blague ("joke, tall story"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I’ve found that, generally speaking, the hardest posts to do are the ones in the middle: posting a YouTube video or quoting a nice paragraph from somebody else’s blag is easy, and writing a technical post full of equations isn’t so difficult, but producing an intelligent, informative, non-deceptive popularization of science is quite the trick! skullsinthestars Says:”
“The ICO also showed me handbooks written by private investigators explaining how to "blag" information for their debt collection agency clients.”
The Guardian: The readers' editor on… the Observer and the private investigator
“On his MySpace blag - he said it was bound to happen.”
“Kwementyaye – who'd returned home from a night out only to discover that he had run out of cigarettes – visited the Todd to see if he could blag one from the campers.”
“There were ticketless Republicans there trying to blag their way in.”
The Guardian: GOP presidential debate in Nevada - as it happened
“I wish I had 3D for that ... do you reckon I can blag it off Sky?”
The Guardian: Digital economy or bust: the story of a new media startup – part 23
“Normally I go the whole hog and exhibit as a small press publisher, but this year it looks like I missed the booking window, so I thought, why not see if I can blag my way in as a guest for once?”
“Supposing Blair is correct, and parents do espy special, precious things that childless adults never can, it would still be reassuring to know that these are not outweighed by the associated burdens of exhaustion, continual interruption and prime ministerial anxiety about how to blag a first-class education without going private.”
The Guardian: Surely Dave and Nick have got better things to do? | Catherine Bennett
“I can [sometimes] blag my way into [nearly] anything.”
100-odd not-so-odd things I LOVE about myself « Digital immigrant
“I'm not a coder, but I used a Mission Impossible-style disguise to blag my way into the Howard Dean meeting, so it was possible.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blag’.
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This is not a list
you know that thing where the Eskimos have 50 words for snow?
little white lie, big lie, the Big Lie, economical with t..., muddy the waters, fabrication, deception, lies, damned lies..., façade, slander, omission, web of lies and 165 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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words
classroom vocabulary
grudge, incontravertible, adversary, putrid, philanthropy, blag, malleable, bubonic, villainous, bargain, charitable, organisation and 1 more...
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Thief Words
Words that deal with stealing and thievery!
steal, plunder, theif, robber, rob, take, kidnap, stole, take ownership, snatch, grab, hide and 19 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 2455 more... -
British Cant & Slang, Old & New
Mostly, the cant words come from my reprint of Francis Grose's 1785 dictionary of 'The Vulgar Tongue', while the more modern slang has been found at various online sources, e.g. this online diction...
bog-standard, bumbaclot, brown trouser moment, bingo wings, bobfoc, babber, sweating, tantadlin tart, taplash, timber toe, tray trip, twiddle-diddles and 209 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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I <3 words!
These are my favorite words!
fluffle, nuke the fridge, cupcake, lessthanthree, batrachian, dilophosaur, eldritch, penguin, tasty, slurp, meep, flar and 2 more...
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Distinctly British
Mostly but not limited to slang and some cockney guffy wibble
haberdashery, coventry, knackered, cack-handed, bate, bimble, blag, boffin, bonce, brolly, busk, cack and 71 more...
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mulligan's Words
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sneakums's Words
blag, slumgullion, widdershins, blither, mantis, slag, simultaneity, anarcy, bollocks
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