Meaning

3 senses
  1. (informal, uncountable)Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.

    Blabla, Gelaber

    балабольствоbalabolʹstvo

  2. (countable, in the plural, informal, uncountable)A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.

  3. (countable, derogatory, informal, uncountable)A fool, an idiot.

More definitions
  • pompous or pretentious talk or writing

Examples

3 sentences
  1. We drank some booze and started to blah, blah, blah.

    ruНемного выпили и начали бла, бла, бла.

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  2. Blah blah blah.

    ruБла-бла-бла.

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  3. One of my Japanese teachers said "honya honya" instead of "blah blah." My ensuing laughter nearly gave me a hernia.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
nonsense talk:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
nonsense talk:

Origin

* Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare A

* Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”), of which the word barbarian derives from.

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