Noun: blague
| Singular | blague |
| Plural | blagues |
Sample Sentences
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The difference is this: one may be obliged to maintain a falsehood from feelings of pride or self-respect, but a blague can be given up without a scruple. [1855, Sketches of the Italian Revolution, page 78:]
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I wonder if the cholera-sick fishing harbour is so sweet, after all! Blague probably. Blague, blague! Brides, love, Naples, joie de vivre, ancient, modern, liberal, conservative, ideal, real, natural—blague. Blague all the way. [1913, Lizzy Lind-af-Hageby, August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt:]
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The blague differs from the laughter of, say, Hugo's L'Homme qui rit, just as it is distinct from irony, which is never coarse or untrue, and indeed presupposes a whole shared system of values. [1992, Philippe Hamon-Page, Expositions: Literature and Architecture in Nineteenth-century France, page 180:]
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But whereas blague, as Pound seems to envisage it, begins with pomp and ends in derision, this poem emerges from circumstances of derision [2008, Geoffrey Hill, Kenneth Haynes, Collected Critical Writings, page 257:]
Nouns inflected like blague
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly. See: French Nouns '
blague'.