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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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Translations for blah
Blah through the time
Blah across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common