 | Gelett Burgess - History - 1914 - 176 pages
...used to clever folk, Laughed at that bleesh till I was sure I'd somehow missed the joke. Blurb, n. 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher. Blurb, v. 1. To flatter from interested motives; to compliment oneself. On the "jacket " of the " latest... | |
 | Merriam-Webster, Inc - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1991 - 552 pages
...later in his work Burgess Unabridged, Burgess himself defined the word that he had coined: Blurb 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher. . . On the jacket' of the 'latest' fiction, we find the blurb; abounding in agile adjectives and adverbs,... | |
 | Allan A. Metcalf - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 230 pages
...not the definition, but he contentedly went along with the meaning that had developed: blurb n, 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher. blurb v. To flatter fram interested motives; to compliment oneself. In the front of the book he defines... | |
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... 1. A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial. 2. Fulsome praise; a sound like a publisher. blurb v. To flatter fram interested motives; to compliment oneself. In the front of the book he defines blurb more briefly as "Praise from one's self,... 