blague

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Cest une blague, peut-etre.

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  1. Humbug; vain boasting; pretentious falsehood.
  2. To humbug; boast; lie jestingly. She [a Belgian shopkeeper] laughed, and said I blagued. The Bread-Winners, vi.

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  1. French
  2. from French blaguer, humbug, hoax; from the noun.
 

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