blah
Americannoun
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of blah
First recorded in 1915–20; imitative
Example Sentences
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But Kryptonite radiation got to Kara’s parents anyway; they sent her to Earth as a teenager, it had a terrible impact — blah, blah, you get the picture.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
He said: "I'd never read the play, I'd never seen it, never met the cast blah blah blah, and yeah, it was the craziest 24 hours."
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
Or that the blah, blah, blah is made by BlackBerry or QNX—or wherever he works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 2, 2026
“I had no inkling that it was Janie, none, even though she had told me weeks later, that she did it and blah, blah, blah,” Ortiz told me.
From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2026
“Sadness and misery, blah blah blah. But you still don’t have enough power to hide two demigods with your Death Mist. Like I said: useless.”
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Shrewdly, once the exuberance ends, Flanagan lets the blahs back in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2025
Q: My 1990s beige bathroom is giving me the blahs every time I use it.
From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2022
It's exactly the right dessert to chase away the winter blahs, a cake that feels festive when the weather says otherwise.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2022
But the trigger for the pandemic blahs was really the feeling of being paralyzed.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2021
As deeply serious as it is deeply funny, “Get Out” is perfectly timed to jolt audiences out of their midwinter blahs, delivering classic genre whammies with a generous serving of cultural critique.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2017
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