Meaning

1 senses

  1. To utter idle, meaningless talk.

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

blahs, blahing, blahed, blahed
Base formblah · to blah
3rd person singularblahs
Present participleblahing
Past simpleblahed
Past participleblahed

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyblah
he, she, itblahs

Past simpleLesson

all personsblahed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave blahed
he, she, ithas blahed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill blah

Word family

3 related words
Relatedbarbarianrhubarb
Derivedblahg

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bladderbladeB2bladedblakeblameB1
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