Blurb vs Burb - What's the difference?
blurb | burb |
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 nouns the difference between blurb and burb
is that blurb is a short description of a book, film, musical work, or other product written and used for promotional purposes while burb is (colloquial|chiefly|in the plural) short form of suburb .As a verb blurb
is to write or quote something in a.blurb
English
(wikipedia blurb)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation