Noun: bla-bla
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | bla-bla |
| Plural m | bla-bla; bla-blas |
Sample Sentences
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Son discours, c’est un blabla prétentieux pour présenter des banalités. (His speech is a pretentious blah to present banalities.)
Nouns inflected like bla-bla
grippe-sou,
gagne-pain,
Haratin,
souffre-douleur,
bla bla,
bla-bla,
chasse-café,
post-it,
beshbarmak,
claque-merde,
grille-pain,
garde-meuble,
sèche-linge,
postscriptum,
tire-lait,
prête-plume,
porte-papier,
pousse-café,
lave-linge,
sang-froid, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. The word is given as onomatopoeic or possibly related to blaguer by le Trésor de la langue française.
2. It appears in the French language in 1945 and could also be a borrowing from earlier English blah.
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