blurb
English
Etymology
Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket[1] at a trade association dinner in 1907. The dust jacket said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blɝ(ː)b/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
Noun
blurb (plural blurbs)
- A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.
Translations
a short description of a book, film, or other work
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Verb
blurb (third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed)
- (transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.
- 2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times:
- When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”
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- (transitive) To supply with a blurb.
- 2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study (page 268)
- Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments.
- 2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study (page 268)
See also
- capsule review
References
- Gelett Burgess (1940) Are you a bromide? (in English), OCLC rbpe24203600
Further reading
blurb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blurb.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blurp/, /blɛrp/
- Rhymes: -urp
- Syllabification: blurb
Noun
blurb m inan
- (colloquial) blurb (short description of a book, film)
Declension
Declension of blurb
singular | plural | |
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nominative | blurb | blurby |
genitive | blurbu | blurbów |
dative | blurbowi | blurbom |
accusative | blurb | blurby |
instrumental | blurbem | blurbami |
locative | blurbie | blurbach |
vocative | blurbie | blurby |
Further reading
- blurb in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- blurb in Polish dictionaries at PWN