blurb
English
Etymology
Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951) on a book dust jacket[1] at a trade association dinner in 1907. It said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”.
Pronunciation
Noun
blurb (plural blurbs)
- A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.
Translations
a short description of a book, film, or other work
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Verb
blurb (third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed)
- To write or quote something in a blurb
- 2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times[2]:
- When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”
Further reading
References
- ^ Gelett Burgess (1940) Are you a bromide?[1], →OCLC