is BLAH a real word?

Answer 1

Blah, blah, blah......
sure it's a word.....i use it here over these questions hundreds of times a day......my proof....

blah (blä) KEY Informal

NOUN:

Worthless nonsense; drivel.
blahs A general feeling of discomfort, dissatisfaction, or depression: "Monday morning Oscar woke up with the blahs" (New Yorker).

ADJECTIVE:
Dull and uninteresting.
Low in spirit or health; down: sat around all day feeling blah.

Answer 2

technically..no.

Blah is a word used in spoken English. It is not often seen in formal writing, except when transcribing speech. It differs from a speech disfluency such as "um" or "er" in that it is a deliberately used word used to represent another word, rather than an accidental or temporary interjection into speech.

Blah is commonly used as an adjective meaning boring. It is also used in a similar way to etc.

Blah is a token word with no meaning of its own, usually used to illustrate generic, boring speech. It may be used to fill in blank space, or to replace another word or phrase. It is for this last purpose that blah is sometimes assumed to mean something negative because it is used to replace a word that may be unpleasant, but blah itself is neutral. If spoken aloud the tone can usually be used to determine the speaker's intent.

Blah can also work as an onomatopoetic word associated with vomiting. In this case, the word is often stretched out and guttural to suggest vomiting.

Also, people who feel yucky/sleepy might exclaim "Blah!" to illustrate their displeasure.

Blah is also used within a compound noun, suggesting a psychological state or expressing an opinion; for example, February blahs describes a generally depressed condition during winter.

One theory of the origin of the word is that its use as a replacement for droning speech is echoic and that its use as a word meaning "bland" or "dull" derives from the French word blasé.[1]

Blah is also a nonsense word, having no real meaning. It is also used as filler in a sentence.

Answer 3

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive English-language dictionary, blah is a word. Slang and colloquailisms don't negate a word. Below are the entries for the OED that define the term and show it is, in fact, a word.

"Blah (n) colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Meaningless, insincere, or pretentious talk or writing; nonsense, bunkum. Also used as a derisive interjection. Freq. reduplicated.

1918 Wine, Women & War (1926) 136 [He] pulled old blah about ‘service’, ‘doing one's bit’, etc. 1921 Collier's 15 Jan. 10/3 Then a special announcer begin a long debate with himself which was mostly blah blah. 1922 S. LEWIS Babbitt xxx. 359 Why the dickens they want to put in their time listening to all that blaa. 1924 M. ARLEN Green Hat vi. 164 So you heard about it from that femme fatale, did you? Damn that man! Bla, bla, bla! 1927 Observer 10 July 28/1 England isn't fooling anyone with so much ‘blah’ about the world's greatest tournament. 1943 ‘G. ORWELL’ in New Road 151 Exactly similar blah is being written about the Red Army at this moment. 1958 E. H. CLEMENTS Uncommon Cold 229 A good deal of blah about waste of public money.
Hence blah, blah-blah v. intr., to talk or write ‘blah’.

1924 ‘W. FABIAN’ Sailors' Wives iv. 56, I was just blahing to hear myself blah. 1931 ST. JOHN ERVINE in Time & Tide 12 Sept. 1057 That schoolmasters should permit him to blah-blah about his ignorance is a crime against the mind. 1942 ‘G. ORWELL’ Diary 18 Apr. in Coll. Ess. (1968) II. 419 The tactless utterances of Americans who for years have been blahing about ‘Indian freedom’ and British imperialism. 1945 in Tribune 14 Dec. 10/3 Instead of blah-blahing about the clean, healthy rivalry of the football field..it is more useful to inquire how and why this modern cult of sport arose.

Blah (a) slang
1. Mad. (? orig. U.S.)

1924 Telegr. & Teleph. Jrnl. X. 68/2 The third class is hopeless... It consists of the people who, in New York slang, have gone ‘blah’. 1928 A. E. W. MASON Prisoner in Opal xxiii. 276 More of your questions and I am blah.
2. Dull, unexciting; pretentious.

1937 N. MARSH Vintage Murder xi. 122 That fascinating blah stuff of hers goes down with the nitwits. 1955 H. ROTH Sleeper ix. 68 You must..have come to realize how blank and blah he made himself. 1959 J. VERNEY Friday's Tunnel iv. 49 One of those blah sneery voices like a butler in a film."

Answer 4

Not a real word. It is how ever a real sound people use to convey feeling and emotion. It is also recognized by others for its meaning. So would this make it a word? I guess it could.

Answer 5

yes it is and here is the meaning and the website:

blah

Main Entry: 1blah
Pronunciation: 'blä
Function: noun
Etymology: imitative
1 also blah-blah /-"blä/ : silly or pretentious chatter or nonsense
2 plural [perh. influenced in meaning by blasé] : a feeling of boredom, lethargy, or general dissatisfaction

Answer 6

You can write, you can say it, and it means something-YES it is a real word.

Answer 7

No but is a very annoying word.

Answer 8

blia in russian sure is :)
to some people it is a connector word :) hehehehhehehe

(a word that u put between two ideas to connect them)

Answer 9

i think it isn't a real word

Answer 10

it's in the dictionary. doesn't that qualify as being a real word?!?!?!