Meaning

(Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
2. (Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
3. (Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.

Example Sentences

Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)

#*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.

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.

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.

I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.

Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?

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.

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; […]

Word Forms

• blegs
• blegging
• blegged

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