Blague

Quick meaning: Blague is a noun meaning To utter blague; to tell a falsehood that no one seriously believes; to bullshit.

Meaning

To utter blague; to tell a falsehood that no one seriously believes; to bullshit.

More Meanings

1. Mendacious boasting that lacks seriousness; falsehood or humbug, especially when it is told mockingly or without the expectation that anyone believes it.

Example Sentences

I left the ward with a heavy heart, though blagued to my mother later that he had been in good spirits .

"When he blagued just now about his crosses, I thought there was something in him,” whispered the Eastern hero to the painter.

But whereas blague, as Pound seems to envisage it, begins with pomp and ends in derision, this poem emerges from circumstances of derision

The difference is this: one may be obliged to maintain a falsehood from feelings of pride or self-respect, but a blague can be given up without a scruple.

Word Forms

• blagues
• blaguing
• blagued

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include humbug, gassing, bantering, blagging, claptrap, braggartry.

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