blurb

Coined by American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1907 on a dust jacket[1] at a trade association dinner in 1907. 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”.

• IPA^(key): /blɝ(ː)b/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b

blurb (plural blurbs)

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

blurb (third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed)

1. (transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.
   • 2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times‎:

     When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”

2. (transitive) To supply with a blurb.
   • 2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study, page 268:

     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.

• capsule review

• blurb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Unadapted borrowing from English blurb.

• IPA^(key): /blurp/, /blɛrp/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -urp
• Syllabification: blurb

blurb m inan

1. (colloquial) blurb (short description of a book, film)

• blurb in Polish dictionaries at PWN