Blee vs Bleg - What's the difference?
blee | bleg |
(rare, usually, poetic) Colour, hue.
* 1931 , Padraic Colum, "Before The Fair" in Lascelles Abercrombie, New English poems: a miscellany of contemporary verse never before published:
* 1920 , Anonymous, "To Marie" in Carolyn Wells, The Book of Humorous Verse :
*:When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim/Twirls the toads in a tooroomaloo,/And the whiskery whine of the wheedlesome whim/Drowns the roll of the rattatattoo,/Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-shee,/And the voice of the bally-molay/Brings the smell of stale poppy-cods blummered in blee /From the willy-wad over the way. [...]
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
*:[...] Thereupon sat a lady bright of blee , with brow beaming brilliancy [...]
*1850 , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning :
Complexion.
Form, texture, consistency.
* 1898 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, The heptalogia :
General resemblance, likeness; aspect, appearance, look.
* That boy has a strong blee of his father. — Robert Forby
(Northeast England) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus ).
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(internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
* 2008 , Andrew Sullivan, "
* 2010 , James Wolcott, "
* 2012 , Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After , Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2012), ISBN 9781596987845,
(internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
* 2008 , "Strange looks and funny lines from the past week", Atlanta Journal-Constitution , 18 May 2008:
* 2009 , John J. Miller, "
* 2009 , Curtis Brainard, "
* 2010 , Iain Murray, "
English blends
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As nouns the difference between blee and bleg
is that blee is colour, hue while bleg is a pouting (Trisopterus luscus).As a verb bleg is
to create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.blee
English
Noun
- [...] "Live," "live," and "Here," "here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree,/ Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee . [...]
- Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee , — Toll slowly.
- [...] I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee [...]
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Etymology 1
Unknown.Noun
(en noun)Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo , 4 July 2007:
- Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg )
Sea Angling latest", Sunderland Echo , 7 November 2007:
- Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs ) on squid.
Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up", Sunderland Echo , 29 May 2008:
- The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs .
Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open", Sunderland Echo , 10 December 2010:
- Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg .
Etymology 2
.Ben Zimmer, "Web]", The New York Times'', 11 November 2010Anglo-American writer claims to have coined this word in 2002,John Derbyshire, "[http://old.nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire080102.asp July Diary", ''National Review Online , 1 August 2002 although earlier usage may have occurred.
Noun
(en noun)- I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
The Utter Arrogance Of It", The Atlantic , 29 August 2008:
- Here's a bleg : can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
A Grammer of Motives*", Vanity Fair , 9 September 2010:
- Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
page 267(acknowledgments section):
- This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find;
Verb
(blegg)- That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
- The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
Novels of the Right, cont.", National Review Online , 30 November 2009:
- About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…", Columbia Journalism Review , 7 August 2009:
- Zimmer had "blegged " (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
Chicagoan Voting System!", National Review Online , 15 April 2010:
- Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.