blague

English

noun

Definitions

mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug

Etymology

Borrowed from French blague (tall story, joke).

Origin

French

blague

Gloss

tall story, joke

Concept

Semantic Field

Speech and language

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Emoji

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Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

blag English
blaga Italian
balg Dutch, Flemish
blague French
blaguer French
blaga Polish
blago Esperanto
blagar Old Occitan
blag Antillean Creole

blag