Definition of blurb in English:

blurb

noun bləːbblərb

A short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes.
Example sentencesExamples
- If he has got a way with words, he might want to think about firing the person writing his promotional blurbs and doing it himself.
- Oh, and when you reach the website, read the promotional blurb.
- The blurb describes it as an ‘altogether morally confused piece of work’.
- I posted it anonymously because I also wrote a blurb for the book, and I didn't want to look as if I was piling on.
- And while many fans read the short blurb as a shock, others saw this coming as clearly as a run-in chair shot.
- There was, in fact, discussion about such a note but however it was worded it sounded more like a promotional blurb than a serious warning.
- While I'm here, does anyone actually read the descriptive blurb on the back of dvds?
- Your short little blurbs regarding faith based social services in Texas are reminiscent of the sound-bites we get from most mainstream media.
- When they observe volunteers doing something great, they snap photos and display them along with the volunteers' names and short blurbs about their volunteer ministry on a display board in the lobby.
- The writing is lively and fun to read; you can actually picture the film freaks foaming at the mouths as they wrote their film blurbs!
- A good friend of mine who was also my publisher at one time, wrote on the blurb of my book that my stories were about women's lives.
- I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs?
- I'll write a nice blurb for his book first, though.
- The blurb described the book as a private detective's journey through personal betrayal to a form of redemption.
- Each jury panel selected three finalists, then composed a short blurb about each.
- We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review.
- That this is the volume's main thrust is not apparent from the dust-jacket description or laudatory blurbs from colleagues.
- If the message board allows it, you can even include a short promotional blurb about your site at the end of your posts.
- I find it fairly easy to blog while writing film scripts, articles, introductions, blurbs and short stories.
- Indian, not Native American, is how his book blurbs describe him: in one short story in this collection a character dryly observes that ‘Native American’ is an oxymoron.
Synonyms
notice, announcement, bulletin

verbbləːbblərb

[with object]North American informal

Write or contribute a blurb for (a book, film, or other product)
this is the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books
Example sentencesExamples
- So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
- He glowingly blurbed the book as ‘splendid and wholly convincing’.
- A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
- Careful readers will notice that, in the middle of the review, there is a lovely, entirely positive sentence, suitable for back-cover blurbing!
- The great author blurbed this as a ‘most amusing little book’ that ‘is far more than that’: ‘While it makes us laugh it exposes with uncanny insight many of our secret wishes and unexpressed desires.’
- Lots and lots and lots of requests coming in for me to read and blurb people's books, or write introductions to things, to all of which at present the answer has to be no.
- I have been asked to blurb it, and I am recommending it now to all of you.
- No writer has excoriated the thirst for fame with more vigor in recent years - and yet here we have an actor (whom you lovingly pimped years ago in the magazine) blurbing your book.
- They were both kind enough to blurb the first book.
- They blurb books, explain pop culture phenomena and offer unsolicited counsel to celebrities in crisis.
- Yes, I heard it's very good and in fact they sent it to me to blurb but I was doing something…
- Maybe if he blurbed my book it wouldn't be considered Chick Lit anymore.
- I mean, a critic has to have an agenda to take the people who blurbed the book to task: they were all sentenced by him to ‘perdition eternal.’
- So mostly they don't get read and mostly they don't get blurbed.
Synonyms
publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate

Origin

Early 20th century: coined by Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist.

Not many words are simply made up, but blurb, ‘a short description written to promote a book or other product’, is one of them. It was invented by the American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1914, although the jacket of one of Burgess's earlier works carried an image of a young lady with the facetious name of ‘Miss Blinda Blurb’.

Rhymes

acerb, curb, disturb, herb, kerb, perturb, Serb, superb, verb

Definition of blurb in US English:

blurb

nounblərbblərb

A short description of a book, movie, or other product written for promotional purposes and appearing on the cover of a book or in an advertisement.
Example sentencesExamples
- The blurb described the book as a private detective's journey through personal betrayal to a form of redemption.
- The blurb describes it as an ‘altogether morally confused piece of work’.
- If the message board allows it, you can even include a short promotional blurb about your site at the end of your posts.
- Each jury panel selected three finalists, then composed a short blurb about each.
- If he has got a way with words, he might want to think about firing the person writing his promotional blurbs and doing it himself.
- I posted it anonymously because I also wrote a blurb for the book, and I didn't want to look as if I was piling on.
- There was, in fact, discussion about such a note but however it was worded it sounded more like a promotional blurb than a serious warning.
- And while many fans read the short blurb as a shock, others saw this coming as clearly as a run-in chair shot.
- Your short little blurbs regarding faith based social services in Texas are reminiscent of the sound-bites we get from most mainstream media.
- Indian, not Native American, is how his book blurbs describe him: in one short story in this collection a character dryly observes that ‘Native American’ is an oxymoron.
- I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs?
- That this is the volume's main thrust is not apparent from the dust-jacket description or laudatory blurbs from colleagues.
- We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review.
- The writing is lively and fun to read; you can actually picture the film freaks foaming at the mouths as they wrote their film blurbs!
- I find it fairly easy to blog while writing film scripts, articles, introductions, blurbs and short stories.
- A good friend of mine who was also my publisher at one time, wrote on the blurb of my book that my stories were about women's lives.
- Oh, and when you reach the website, read the promotional blurb.
- When they observe volunteers doing something great, they snap photos and display them along with the volunteers' names and short blurbs about their volunteer ministry on a display board in the lobby.
- While I'm here, does anyone actually read the descriptive blurb on the back of dvds?
- I'll write a nice blurb for his book first, though.
Synonyms
notice, announcement, bulletin

verbblərbblərb

[with object]North American informal

Write or contribute a blurb for (a book, movie, or other product)
this is the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books
Example sentencesExamples
- Careful readers will notice that, in the middle of the review, there is a lovely, entirely positive sentence, suitable for back-cover blurbing!
- So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover.
- No writer has excoriated the thirst for fame with more vigor in recent years - and yet here we have an actor (whom you lovingly pimped years ago in the magazine) blurbing your book.
- Yes, I heard it's very good and in fact they sent it to me to blurb but I was doing something…
- They were both kind enough to blurb the first book.
- I have been asked to blurb it, and I am recommending it now to all of you.
- He glowingly blurbed the book as ‘splendid and wholly convincing’.
- The great author blurbed this as a ‘most amusing little book’ that ‘is far more than that’: ‘While it makes us laugh it exposes with uncanny insight many of our secret wishes and unexpressed desires.’
- A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’
- I mean, a critic has to have an agenda to take the people who blurbed the book to task: they were all sentenced by him to ‘perdition eternal.’
- So mostly they don't get read and mostly they don't get blurbed.
- Lots and lots and lots of requests coming in for me to read and blurb people's books, or write introductions to things, to all of which at present the answer has to be no.
- Maybe if he blurbed my book it wouldn't be considered Chick Lit anymore.
- They blurb books, explain pop culture phenomena and offer unsolicited counsel to celebrities in crisis.
Synonyms
publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate

Origin

Early 20th century: coined by Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist.

单词	blurb
释义	Definition of blurb in English: blurb noun bləːbblərb A short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes. Example sentencesExamples If he has got a way with words, he might want to think about firing the person writing his promotional blurbs and doing it himself. Oh, and when you reach the website, read the promotional blurb. The blurb describes it as an ‘altogether morally confused piece of work’. I posted it anonymously because I also wrote a blurb for the book, and I didn't want to look as if I was piling on. And while many fans read the short blurb as a shock, others saw this coming as clearly as a run-in chair shot. There was, in fact, discussion about such a note but however it was worded it sounded more like a promotional blurb than a serious warning. While I'm here, does anyone actually read the descriptive blurb on the back of dvds? Your short little blurbs regarding faith based social services in Texas are reminiscent of the sound-bites we get from most mainstream media. When they observe volunteers doing something great, they snap photos and display them along with the volunteers' names and short blurbs about their volunteer ministry on a display board in the lobby. The writing is lively and fun to read; you can actually picture the film freaks foaming at the mouths as they wrote their film blurbs! A good friend of mine who was also my publisher at one time, wrote on the blurb of my book that my stories were about women's lives. I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs? I'll write a nice blurb for his book first, though. The blurb described the book as a private detective's journey through personal betrayal to a form of redemption. Each jury panel selected three finalists, then composed a short blurb about each. We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review. That this is the volume's main thrust is not apparent from the dust-jacket description or laudatory blurbs from colleagues. If the message board allows it, you can even include a short promotional blurb about your site at the end of your posts. I find it fairly easy to blog while writing film scripts, articles, introductions, blurbs and short stories. Indian, not Native American, is how his book blurbs describe him: in one short story in this collection a character dryly observes that ‘Native American’ is an oxymoron. Synonyms notice, announcement, bulletin verbbləːbblərb [with object]North American informal Write or contribute a blurb for (a book, film, or other product) this is the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books Example sentencesExamples So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover. He glowingly blurbed the book as ‘splendid and wholly convincing’. A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’ Careful readers will notice that, in the middle of the review, there is a lovely, entirely positive sentence, suitable for back-cover blurbing! The great author blurbed this as a ‘most amusing little book’ that ‘is far more than that’: ‘While it makes us laugh it exposes with uncanny insight many of our secret wishes and unexpressed desires.’ Lots and lots and lots of requests coming in for me to read and blurb people's books, or write introductions to things, to all of which at present the answer has to be no. I have been asked to blurb it, and I am recommending it now to all of you. No writer has excoriated the thirst for fame with more vigor in recent years - and yet here we have an actor (whom you lovingly pimped years ago in the magazine) blurbing your book. They were both kind enough to blurb the first book. They blurb books, explain pop culture phenomena and offer unsolicited counsel to celebrities in crisis. Yes, I heard it's very good and in fact they sent it to me to blurb but I was doing something… Maybe if he blurbed my book it wouldn't be considered Chick Lit anymore. I mean, a critic has to have an agenda to take the people who blurbed the book to task: they were all sentenced by him to ‘perdition eternal.’ So mostly they don't get read and mostly they don't get blurbed. Synonyms publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate Origin Early 20th century: coined by Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist. Not many words are simply made up, but blurb, ‘a short description written to promote a book or other product’, is one of them. It was invented by the American humorist Gelett Burgess in 1914, although the jacket of one of Burgess's earlier works carried an image of a young lady with the facetious name of ‘Miss Blinda Blurb’. Rhymes acerb, curb, disturb, herb, kerb, perturb, Serb, superb, verb Definition of blurb in US English: blurb nounblərbblərb A short description of a book, movie, or other product written for promotional purposes and appearing on the cover of a book or in an advertisement. Example sentencesExamples The blurb described the book as a private detective's journey through personal betrayal to a form of redemption. The blurb describes it as an ‘altogether morally confused piece of work’. If the message board allows it, you can even include a short promotional blurb about your site at the end of your posts. Each jury panel selected three finalists, then composed a short blurb about each. If he has got a way with words, he might want to think about firing the person writing his promotional blurbs and doing it himself. I posted it anonymously because I also wrote a blurb for the book, and I didn't want to look as if I was piling on. There was, in fact, discussion about such a note but however it was worded it sounded more like a promotional blurb than a serious warning. And while many fans read the short blurb as a shock, others saw this coming as clearly as a run-in chair shot. Your short little blurbs regarding faith based social services in Texas are reminiscent of the sound-bites we get from most mainstream media. Indian, not Native American, is how his book blurbs describe him: in one short story in this collection a character dryly observes that ‘Native American’ is an oxymoron. I'm sure it takes a monstrous ego to be a White House speechwriter, but do these guys really believe their own promotional blurbs? That this is the volume's main thrust is not apparent from the dust-jacket description or laudatory blurbs from colleagues. We all know how book blurbs and theatre notices can, by careful editing, turn critical comments into a rave review. The writing is lively and fun to read; you can actually picture the film freaks foaming at the mouths as they wrote their film blurbs! I find it fairly easy to blog while writing film scripts, articles, introductions, blurbs and short stories. A good friend of mine who was also my publisher at one time, wrote on the blurb of my book that my stories were about women's lives. Oh, and when you reach the website, read the promotional blurb. When they observe volunteers doing something great, they snap photos and display them along with the volunteers' names and short blurbs about their volunteer ministry on a display board in the lobby. While I'm here, does anyone actually read the descriptive blurb on the back of dvds? I'll write a nice blurb for his book first, though. Synonyms notice, announcement, bulletin verbblərbblərb [with object]North American informal Write or contribute a blurb for (a book, movie, or other product) this is the first time I have blurbed a whole line of books Example sentencesExamples Careful readers will notice that, in the middle of the review, there is a lovely, entirely positive sentence, suitable for back-cover blurbing! So you blurb the writer rather than the book, so you just know that that's going to be the one they stick on the cover. No writer has excoriated the thirst for fame with more vigor in recent years - and yet here we have an actor (whom you lovingly pimped years ago in the magazine) blurbing your book. Yes, I heard it's very good and in fact they sent it to me to blurb but I was doing something… They were both kind enough to blurb the first book. I have been asked to blurb it, and I am recommending it now to all of you. He glowingly blurbed the book as ‘splendid and wholly convincing’. The great author blurbed this as a ‘most amusing little book’ that ‘is far more than that’: ‘While it makes us laugh it exposes with uncanny insight many of our secret wishes and unexpressed desires.’ A novelist blurbed the hardback: ‘She'll take you farther from home than you ever dreamed you'd go.’ I mean, a critic has to have an agenda to take the people who blurbed the book to task: they were all sentenced by him to ‘perdition eternal.’ So mostly they don't get read and mostly they don't get blurbed. Lots and lots and lots of requests coming in for me to read and blurb people's books, or write introductions to things, to all of which at present the answer has to be no. Maybe if he blurbed my book it wouldn't be considered Chick Lit anymore. They blurb books, explain pop culture phenomena and offer unsolicited counsel to celebrities in crisis. Synonyms publicize, make public, make known, give publicity to, bill, post, announce, broadcast, proclaim, trumpet, shout from the rooftops, give notice of, call attention to, promulgate Origin Early 20th century: coined by Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist.
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