blam

See also: BLAM, blăm, and błam

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [ˈblæm], [ˈblam]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -æm

Etymology 1

By onomatopoeia.

Noun

blam (plural blams)

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.

   He kicked in the door with a blam.

Interjection

blam

1. A sudden, explosive sound, such as is made by a gunshot.

   That the last zombie? Here. Let me get that for ya. *BLAM!*

Verb

blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang)

1. (intransitive) To fire a gun.
2. (transitive) To shoot; to kill by gunshot.
3. (transitive) To shoot, to propel by means of sudden impact.
   • 2022, “REALIFE”, LF70 (lyrics), 1:29:

     Spin that whip, let me see that dog, Imma blam that goal like Messi, shit gets messy – and I still get him down with my lefty

Verb

blam (third-person singular simple present blams, present participle blamming, simple past and past participle blammed) (Internet slang, Newgrounds)

1. (transitive) To unpublish or remove (a user-submitted movie/game) for having a rating below two stars.

   My game got blammed.

2. (transitive) To rate a (user-submitted movie/game) below two stars.

   That was a test animation, so I blammed it.

Derived terms

• blammer
• blammo
• blammy
• blam up (“shoot up”)
• kablam

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *weyh₁-?

Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós

Proto-Germanic *weraz

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂életi

Proto-Germanic *alaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Germanic *-þiz

Proto-Germanic *aldiz

Proto-Germanic *weraldiz

Proto-West Germanic *weraldi

Old English weorold

Middle English world

English world

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

Proto-Indo-European *dwi-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-ós

Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁ós

Proto-Germanic *wīdaz

Old English wīd

English wide

English -wide

English worldwide

Proto-Indo-European *webʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *webaną

Proto-Germanic *wabją

Old English webb

Middle English web

English web

English World Wide Webellip.

English Web

Proto-Indo-European *legʰ-

Proto-Indo-European *-yeti

Proto-Indo-European *légʰyeti

Proto-Germanic *ligjaną

Old Norse liggjader.?

Middle English logge

English log

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?

Proto-Germanic *bōks

Proto-West Germanic *bōk

Old English bōc

Middle English bok

English book

English logbook

English log

English weblog

English blog

English spam

blend

English blam

Blend of blog + spam.

Noun

blam (uncountable)

1. (Internet, informal) Spam posted to a blog.
   • 2012, Martin Peitz, Joel Waldfogel, The Oxford Handbook of the Digital Economy:

     […] we refer to unsolicited and unwanted advertising as spam. The phenomenon is widespread, and has led people to coin terms for it in other information product or service contexts, such as splog or blam (unsolicited advertisements in blog comments), spim (instant messaging), […]

   • 2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Internet Marketing, SEO & Advertising:

     To counter this effect, spammers attempt to create links to their sites on other people's pages. The most common targets for this kind of spam are weblogs, the spamming then being known as blog spam, or "blam" for short.

Anagrams

• ALBM, BAML, LBMA, Lamb, balm, lamb

Cornish

Etymology

Borrowed from English blame.

Noun

blam m (plural blamys)

1. blame

   Synonym: kabel

Derived terms

• blamya (“to blame”, verb)

Verb

blam

1. inflection of blamya:
   1. third-person singular present indicative/future indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Mutation

Mutation of blam

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
blam	vlam	unchanged	plam	flam, vlam*

* after 'th
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• “blam” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

Middle English

Noun

blam

1. (rare) alternative form of blame

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French blâme.

Noun

blam n (plural blamuri)

1. public disapproval, condemnation

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	blam	blamul	blamuri	blamurile
genitive-dative	blam	blamului	blamuri	blamurilor
vocative	blamule		blamurilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Back-formation from blamírati or blamáža.

Noun

blȃm m inan (Cyrillic spelling бла̑м)

1. (chiefly Serbia, colloquial) (feeling of) embarrassment

Related terms

• blamáža (“(an instance of) embarrassment”)
• blamírati (“to embarrass”)