blah
Plural: blahs
Noun
- Nonsensical or uninteresting talk; a feeling of dullness.
- pompous or pretentious talk or writing
- Nonsense; drivel; idle, meaningless talk.
- A general or ambiguous feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, uneasiness, boredom, mild depression, etc.
- A fool, an idiot.
Adj
- Dull; uninteresting; insipid.
- Low in spirit or health; down.
Intj
- An expression of mild frustration.
- Imitative of idle, meaningless talk; used sometimes in a slightly derogatory manner to mock or downplay another's words, or to show disinterest in a diatribe, rant, instructions, unsolicited advice, parenting, etc. Also used when recalling and retelling another's words, as a substitute for the portions of the speech deemed irrelevant.
- Representing the sound of vomiting.
Verb
- To utter idle, meaningless talk.
Examples
- All his post-game commentary was just BLAH, full of excuses for his defeat.
- And then he was like, "Oh, my brother's an Internet millionaire, blah blah blah." Like I care!
- Blah! Why can't I get this computer to work!
- I decided to go exercise rather than sit around all day feeling blah.
- Well, the new restaurant seems nice, but their menu is a little blah.
- Yeah, yeah, blah blah blah, Mom, you said this all yesterday.
Origin / Etymology
* Sense “Idle, meaningless talk” (1940), probably imitative or echoic in origin. Compare Ancient Greek βαρ-βαρ (bar-bar, “unintelligible sounds”)
* Adjective sense “bland, dull” (1919), perhaps influenced by French blasé (“bored, indifferent”).
* The blahs (“boredom, mild depression”) first attested 1969; probably a blend of the blues + blah (adjective).
* Also may be connected with bleat
Synonyms
bombast, claptrap, fustian, rant, BS, Bandini, Greek, Irish bull, absurdity, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, bafflegab, bah, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blah, blah blah, blah blah blah, blast, blather, blatherskite, bleah, blech, bleh, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, clamjamfrey, cobblers, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drat, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fie, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, galimatias, garbage, garble, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, jabber, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, macaroni, malaise, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, nertz, nonsense, pie in the sky, piffle, pigswill, poppycock, prattle, put-on, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, squit, stuff, stuff and nonsense, tommy-rot, tosh, trash, tripe, tush, twaddle, wass, whiff-whaff, word salad, yada yada yada
Scrabble Score: 9
blah: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordblah: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blah: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary