blurb

CEFRC2

/blɝ(ː)b/

noun

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A short description used to promote a book or product.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    To supply with a blurb.

Examples

  • He wrote a short blurb about the movie he had just watched.

  • The website displayed a small blurb of a blog post.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
4

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To write or quote in a blurb.

  2. A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.

More examples

In context

  • The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker.

  • Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The back cover of the novel had a short blank praising the story.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

Coined by American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket at a trade association dinner. The dust jacket said “YES, this is a “BLURB”!” and featured a (fictitious) “Miss Belinda Blurb” shown calling out, described as “in the act of blurbing”.