Blub vs Blurb - What's the difference?
blub | blurb |
To cry, whine or blubber
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(James Joyce)
, title=
, publisher=Vintage International (1990)
, page=80
, passage=Like to see them sitting round in a ring with blub lips, entranced, listening.}}
(obsolete) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.
A short description of a book, film, musical work, or other product written and used for promotional purposes.
To write or quote something in a
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 4, author=David M. Halbfinger, title=Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review, work=New York Times
, passage=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.” }}
English eponyms
As verbs the difference between blub and blurb
is that blub is to cry, whine or blubber while blurb is to write or quote something in a.As a noun blurb is
a short description of a book, film, musical work, or other product written and used for promotional purposes.blub
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