blag

Perhaps from French blague (“joke, tall story”), blaguer (“to joke”)[1], from Old Occitan blagar (“to chat”).

• IPA^(key): /blæɡ/
• Rhymes: -æɡ

blag (third-person singular simple present blags, present participle blagging, simple past and past participle blagged)

1. (Britain, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.

   Synonyms: obtain, sponge

   Can I blag a fag?

2. (Britain, informal, specifically) To obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.

   Synonym: pretext

   The newspaper is accused of blagging details of Gordon Brown's flat purchase from his solicitors.

3. (Polari) To pick up someone.
4. (Britain, informal, 1960s) To persuade.

   He's blagged his way into many a party.

5. (Britain, informal, 1940s) To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.

blag (plural blags)

1. (Britain, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.

   A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.

2. (Britain criminal slang) An armed robbery.

blag (comparative more blag, superlative most blag)

1. (Britain, informal) Fake, not genuine.

   You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

   Synonym: fake

• blagger, Blagger

First attested in xkcd: "Mispronouncing".

blag (plural blags)

1. (humorous) Misspelling of blog.

• blag at The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary

From French blague.

blag

1. joke

• IPA^(key): /blɔːx/, /blɒːx/ (more on the merger of monophthongal A and O)

blag

1. Alternative spelling of blaag

From Proto-Slavic *bolgъ.

• IPA^(key): /blâːɡ/

blȃg (definite blȃgī, comparative blȁžī, Cyrillic spelling бла̑г)

1. mild, gentle, soft

• blagost

• “blag” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *bolgъ.

• IPA^(key): /bláːk/

blȃg (comparative blážji or blȃžji, superlative nȁjblážji or nȁjblȃžji)

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