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blah

(blä) Informal

1. often blah blah or blah blah blah Meaningless or uninteresting remarks.

2. blahs A general feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, or depression: "Monday morning Oscar woke up with the blahs" (New Yorker).

adj.

1. Dull and uninteresting.

2. Low in spirit or health; down: sat around all day feeling blah.

[Imitative of meaningless talk.]

blah adv.

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blah

(blɑː) or

blah blah

worthless or silly talk; claptrap

adj

uninteresting; insipid

(intr) to talk nonsense or boringly

[C20 imit]

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blah

(blɑ)
Informal. n.

1. meaningless chatter; nonsense.

2. the blahs, a feeling of physical uneasiness, general discomfort, or mild depression; malaise.

adj.

3. dull; uninteresting.

[1915–20; imitative]

blah

Past participle: blahed
Gerund: blahing

Imperative
blah
blah

Present
I blah
you blah
he/she/it blahs
we blah
you blah
they blah

Preterite
I blahed
you blahed
he/she/it blahed
we blahed
you blahed
they blahed

Present Continuous
I am blahing
you are blahing
he/she/it is blahing
we are blahing
you are blahing
they are blahing

Present Perfect
I have blahed
you have blahed
he/she/it has blahed
we have blahed
you have blahed
they have blahed

Past Continuous
I was blahing
you were blahing
he/she/it was blahing
we were blahing
you were blahing
they were blahing

Past Perfect
I had blahed
you had blahed
he/she/it had blahed
we had blahed
you had blahed
they had blahed

Future
I will blah
you will blah
he/she/it will blah
we will blah
you will blah
they will blah

Future Perfect
I will have blahed
you will have blahed
he/she/it will have blahed
we will have blahed
you will have blahed
they will have blahed

Future Continuous
I will be blahing
you will be blahing
he/she/it will be blahing
we will be blahing
you will be blahing
they will be blahing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been blahing
you have been blahing
he/she/it has been blahing
we have been blahing
you have been blahing
they have been blahing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been blahing
you will have been blahing
he/she/it will have been blahing
we will have been blahing
you will have been blahing
they will have been blahing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been blahing
you had been blahing
he/she/it had been blahing
we had been blahing
you had been blahing
they had been blahing

Conditional
I would blah
you would blah
he/she/it would blah
we would blah
you would blah
they would blah

Past Conditional
I would have blahed
you would have blahed
he/she/it would have blahed
we would have blahed
you would have blahed
they would have blahed

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Noun

blah - pompous or pretentious talk or writing

bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant

grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"

Translations

blabla

blah

[blɑː]

A. ADJ (US) → poco apetitoso

B. N

1. (= words) → paja f, palabrería f
and there was a lot more blah, blah, blah → y hubo mucho más bla, bla, bla

2. the blahs (US) → la depre

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blah

(inf)

n (dated, = nonsense) → Blabla (inf), → Geschwafel (inf) nt

interj blah, blah, blah → blabla (inf)

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KWAN Entertainment founder Anirban Das Blah, a celebrity manager who has been accused of sexual misconduct, reportedly tried to commit suicide early on Friday, police said.

Bollywood manager attempts suicide after #MeToo allegation

The Shadow Foreign Secretary last night suggested the deal Theresa May's team bring for a Commons vote will be so vague and "blah blah blah" that it will "probably pass".

Emily Thornberry 'was being sarcastic' when she said Labour would vote for a 'blah blah' Brexit deal; Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell said the Shadow Foreign Secretary wasn't being entirely serious

He said he picked The House of Blah Blah to show his work due to its "amazing atmosphere" and the fact that "it is right in the centre of our community".

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EMMERDALE (7pm ITV) AFTER Declan rescued her from the fire, Megan is in critical condition, blah blah, possible brain injury blah blah blah It feels like we've been here many times before.

WE LOVE SOAPS

Well, this autumn, Baltic's teen panel "Blah Blah Blah" is attempting to provide some of the answers.

Project aims to find out what makes us happy

Every so often a celebrity would take to the stage to collect their prize, and after thanking the director and their co-stars and dribbling on about their disgusting family for a bit, they'd gaze up at the "regular" folk in the cheap seats and offer a profound thank you to them, because after all, dear public,youare the ones who ultimately blah blah blah let me pat you on the head blah blah blah God bless your plebby little faces blah blah blah.

The strangest creature on the planet: the audience

Or that your elucidation of humanity is the most sublimely blah blah blah of any blah blah blah since blah blah blah.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

Parenting columnist Marjorie Ingall is not, she informs us today in Tablet Magazine, sending her daughter to Zionist summer camp because she wants Josie to be a staunch defender of Israel's right to exist and foe of all efforts at delegitimizing the Jewish state blah blah blah.

Todah, Camp Ramah!

And I know, move with the times, blah, blah, teenagers are clever because they've invented their own language blah blah.

Txt spk not fav of mine

Dr Jay aka Blah, Blah, Blah (GDN, January 6) notes with fun that the writers of a few letters recently have failed to give any reference even to one of these tests or provide a link to information regarding homeopathy.