Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal)Dull; uninteresting; insipid.

    Well, the new restaurant seems nice, but their menu is a little blah.

  2. (informal)Low in spirit or health; down.

    I decided to go exercise rather than sit around all day feeling blah.

Examples

3 sentences

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

    ruНемного выпили и начали бла, бла, бла. — krevedko

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  2. Blah blah blah.

    ruБла-бла-бла. — marafon

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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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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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Forms

more blah, most blah
Comparativemore blah Lesson
Superlativemost blah Lesson

regular

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bladderbladeB2bladedblakeblameB1

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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