Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Worthless nonsense; drivel.
- n. A general feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, or depression: "Monday morning Oscar woke up with the blahs” ( New Yorker).
- adj. Dull and uninteresting.
- adj. Low in spirit or health; down: sat around all day feeling blah.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable, informal Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
- n. informal (in plural, the blahs) A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
- adj. informal Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
- adj. informal Low in spirit or health; down.
- interj. An expression of mild frustration.
- interj. Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- interj. Representing the sound of vomiting. See bleah, bleh.
WordNet 3.0
- n. pompous or pretentious talk or writing
Etymologies
- Imitative of meaningless talk. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I know I'm lame, but we've been painting the house, etc..blah blah So, picked up a premade cake and asked if they'd pipe, "YOU'RE 8!" on it.”
“Under this government wallpaper supplies have risen ten fold..blah blah.”
“Even so, I still like WordPress much much better..blah blah blah”
“More lies and drivel…..blah, blah, blah…the same old crap.”
“Bushs fault…..blah blah blah……sunburn on the beach?”
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“Israel has over-reached……blah blah blah……the failure of american schools is all Bushs fault…..blah blah blah…….health care?”
Think Progress » Iranian President Cracks Down On Citizen Blogging, Starts His Own Blog
“He asked how I was and what I was doing and Blah blah blah ”
“Let those who cast the first stone, etc..blah, blah, blah...”
“Palolim was still full of tourist, bars, restaurant and every 5 meters some local kid or seller would jump at you trying to pull you into his shop: «Come very cheap price, only have a look, .... blah blah».”
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“My brother trying to comfort me * blah blah blah*.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blah’.
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Grunts, Sounds, Calls
Aah, achoo, ack, ah, aha, ahem, ah-ha, aw, baa, bah, blah, boo and 64 more...
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beyond and in the pale (pail)
pastel, etiolate, wan, fence, fennec, blah, calcimine, aswoon, divaricator, fine-tooth comb, talipot
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Twitter faves
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.
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gonk, nerking, guap, gimp, fabulous, dabble, fabilicious, tragic, zooted, hey, cheekini, nugget and 457 more... -
Resident Pipsiculturalist Makes Huge ...
See comments on pipsiculture and homosexuality, which have nothing to do with each other except that I read comments on them at around the same time on the same day.
See also the list ...heterosexuality, homosexuality, agriculture, argumentative, that, article, thus, make, do, the, interesting, like and 106 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.
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bumwank, calamity, recalcitrant, gayenese, jeeze, nonsense, flabbergasted, juxtapose, procrastinating, ossanity, biffing, loser and 1972 more... -
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
Onomatopoetics
Words formed in imitation of a natural sound.
bumble-bee, rat-a-tat, blurt, clink, chickadee, rub-a-dub, chirr, chug, keck, flim-flam, brekekekex, thunk and 94 more...
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born2badored's Words
livid, fnordy, grok, bloopy, bokonon, disinformation, psychometrics, trip hop, acid jazz, bauble, dynamic, constant and 91 more...
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favorite words
ennui, bonhomie, eschew, liaison, serendipity, lovely, dusk, kitten, epitome, sexy, beloved, darling and 396 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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jenniigurll's list
Words that you lovvee!!!!
goggle, swoosh, blah, wordie, crazy, love, criss angel, mindfreak, illusion, magic, music
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just saying
yeah, alas, aargh, bah, because, boo, certainly, damn, geez, grrr, hey, lame and 34 more...
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strange_person's list
blah, whoop, scene, supercallifragili..., rolly polly head, rollie pollie head, bar stool univers..., rumplestiltskins ..., a pint of bottled..., the worlds finest..., beef feet, lesbian bum fun and 3 more...
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Favourites
elijah, friend, gumption, gumption, frightened, fright, despair, rawr, blah, meh
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wuurdee's Words
teriyaki, hokum, zephyr, picturesque, blah, digress, heirloom, trinket, rouge, prepostorous
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michaelseanhansen's list
Tweets
Looking for tweets for blah.
strange_person blah is an interesting word. Dec 7, 2008
born2badored exclamation of disgust Dec 6, 2006