# bleg
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /blɛɡ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛɡ

### Etymology 1

Unknown

#### Noun

bleg (plural blegs)
* (Northumbria) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
** 4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo‎:Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)
** 7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo‎:#*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.
** 29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, in Sunderland Echo‎:The only report on boat fishing last week was on Tuesday when the Wanderer managed to get out and took about a dozen codling to three pounds plus a few blegs.
** 10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo‎:Saturday saw just three Seahan SAC juniors fishing for the J.T. Jacobs Cup, with two weighing in three coalies, a codling and a bleg.

### Etymology 2

Blend of blog +‎ beg. British-born American far-right political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer John Derbyshire claims to have coined the verb in 2002, although earlier usage may have occurred.

#### Noun

bleg (plural blegs)
* (Internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
    I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
** 2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic‎:Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?
** 2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair‎, archived from the original on 14 January 2013:Last time I looked, The QOR Club was a shuttered ghost town, and Jeff Goldstein is still doing monthly blegs to pay for the capital letters required to proclaim OUTLAW! at the end of his sporadic posts.
** 2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After‎, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, acknowledgments section, page 267:This book was crowdsourced among many friends, who helped me to new insights about love in the twenty-first century and into Jane Austen; answered frantic Facebook blegs for sources of quotations I couldn't find; […]

#### Verb

bleg (third-person singular simple present blegs, present participle blegging, simple past and past participle blegged)
* (Internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.
    That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
** 2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
** 2009 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online:About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].
** 2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review:Zimmer had "blegged" (that’s right, begged on his blog) his readers to help him compile a number of book and article titles for inclusion in that list, and they "did not disappoint."
** 2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.

##### See also

* lazyweb

### References

* ↑ Ben Zimmer (2010 November 11) “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine‎: “The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).”
* ↑ John Derbyshire (2002 August 1) “July Diary”, in National Review Online‎, archived from the original on 2002-10-19: “The verb "to bleg" — coined, I believe, by yours truly — means "to use your blog to beg for assistance from readers.")”

### Anagrams

* Belg.

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From Old Norse bleikr, from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz. Related to blege.

#### Adjective

bleg
* pale, pallid

##### Inflection

$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

bleg
* imperative of blege

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic благъ (blagŭ), from Proto-Slavic *bolgъ (“good”). Compare Serbo-Croatian blag.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bleɡ/

### Adjective

bleg m or n (feminine singular bleagă, masculine plural blegi, feminine and neuter plural blege)
* soft, shy, silly, dull, weak, foolish, sheepish
* (of ears, usually animals) going down, droopy

#### Declension
## Scots
### Alternative forms

* bleget

### Etymology

From Old Norse bleikr.

### Adjective

bleg
* (of colour) Light and drab, esp. of (wool of) sheep.

### References

* https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/bleg_adj