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See also: blagué
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly.
Noun
[edit]blague (countable and uncountable, plural blagues)
Related terms
[edit]Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blague”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Translations
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]18th century, from Dutch balg. The sense “joke” (ca. 1800) from the notion of something puffed up, hence vain, fanciful.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blague f (plural blagues)
- pouch, especially for tobacco
- joke
- Synonyms: plaisanterie f, (North America) joke f
- (Louisiana, Cajun) a penis
- Synonym: pénis m
Derived terms
[edit]Verb
[edit]blague
- inflection of blaguer:
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “blague”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from French blague.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]blague f (plural blagues)
Further reading
[edit]- blague in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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