blah

Etymology

 * Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably or echoic in origin. Compare Greek "barbarbar” ‘unintelligible sounds’ (Grillo 1989:174).
 * Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by.
 * The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; extension of adjective sense and influenced by term.
 * Also may be connected with

GRILLO, R.D. 1989. Dominant languages: Language and hierarchy in Britain and France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Noun

 * 1)  Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
 * 2)   A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: höpöpuhe, höpinä,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Italian: bla, bla bla, bla bla bla
 * Polish: ple ple, ecie-pecie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, blablablá, bla-bla-bla
 * Swedish:, blabla, blablabla

Adjective

 * 1)  Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
 * Well, the new restaurant seems nice, but their menu is a little blah.
 * 1)  Low in spirit or health; down.
 * I decided to go exercise rather than sit around all day feeling blah.
 * I decided to go exercise rather than sit around all day feeling blah.

Interjection

 * Blah! Why can't I get this computer to work!
 * Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.
 * And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!
 * Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.
 * And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!
 * Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.
 * And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!

Translations

 * Finnish: plääh


 * Finnish: pälä, blaa
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Finnish:
 * Spanish: bluaa, bluaaa


 * Turkish:

Verb

 * 1)  To utter idle, meaningless talk.

Adjective

 * 1) bright

Noun

 * 1) moon