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Meanings of blah in English

Spanish
altisonancia

Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.

        altisonancia
        Usage of blah in English
        1
        Typical far-right religious stuff -the decay of society, blah blah blah.
        Reuters
        2
        They were talking Dostoyevsky's blah-blah and the objective correlative of the doodad.
        Lit: a memoir
        3
        I keep going, blah blah blahing, clenching the phone in my hand.
        Something wicked
        4
        Love,' blah, blah, blah, she put everybody's names here, even Headmaster Merlin.
        James Potter and the Vault of Destinies
        5
        Eighty percent will soon be able to drink the water, blah blah blah.
        The Irish Times
        6
        She was going to express concern, family loyalty, blah, blah, blah.
        The Fame Game
        7
        Stress and pressure, pressure and stress, blah blah blah blah blah.
        Indecent suggestion
        8
        They're free, so no complaining about ticket prices blah blah blah.
        The Irish Times
        9
        I love to go out blah blah, but facebook is a different thing.
        Climbing Magazine
        10
        Or: Everything I have to say about blah is cliché .
        The Guardian
        11
        Usually it was just 'Fix your helmet', 'Stand up straight', blah blah blah.
        Artemis Fowl
        12
        That's how Hollywood works-onething leads to another, blah, blah, blah.
        Are you there, vodka? it's me, chelsea
        13
        Instead, I felt blah and ready for it to be over.
        Ebony
        14
        Blond, nineteen, quit school, converted to Islam, joined the Taliban, blah blah blah?
        The apocalypse reader
        15
        Eventually after we split, blah, blah, I started bugging him for the recipe.
        The new yorker
        16
        I just find these women are beneath you, blah, blah, blah.
        The new yorker
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        Blah through the time
        Blah across language varieties
        United States of America
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Less common