bleg
noun/blɛɡ/
Etymology
Blend of blog + beg. by British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.
Definitions
A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
- 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.
An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- 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.
To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
- That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
- The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
- About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bleg. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA