blurb
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blurb
- /blɝ(ː)b/
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)b
Where it comes from
Coined by American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket at a trade association dinner. The dust jacket said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”.
noun blurbs
- A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes. In a few weeks, blurbs would come back; a few, or many, depending on the book. There were certain writers we knew were always good for a blurb: Louis Untermeyer would always come through — poetry, fiction, humor — whatever, he'd send a well‐turned commendation.
verb blurbs · blurbing · blurbed
- To write or quote in a blurb. 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.”
- To supply with a blurb. The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker.
Translations
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noun a short description of a book, film, or other work
| Español | sinopsis, resumen, síntesis |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 宣伝文 sendenbun |
| 中文 | 大作廣告 /大作广告 dàzuò guǎnggào |
| Português | sinopse, resumo, síntese |
| Français | quatrième de couverture |
| Deutsch | Klappentext, Einbandtext, Umschlagtext |
| Italiano | fascetta pubblicitaria |
| Русский | аннота́ция annotácija, рекла́ма rekláma |
| العربية | تَقْرِيظ taqrīẓ |
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title = {blurb},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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