bleg meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

bleg

noun

/blɛɡ/

Etymology Unknown

Northumbria A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).

Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)4 July 2007, Jack Melton, “Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem”, in Sunderland Echo:
#*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.7 November 2007, “Sea Angling latest”, in Sunderland Echo:

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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.29 May 2008, “Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up”, 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.10 December 2010, “Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open”, in Sunderland Echo:

bleg

verb

Etymology 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.

Internet To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.

That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.2008 May 18, “Strange looks and funny lines from the past week”, in Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

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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 November 30, John J. Miller, “Novels of the Right, cont.”, in National Review Online:
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."2009 August 7, Curtis Brainard, “It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…”, in Columbia Journalism Review:
Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.2010 April 15, Iain Murray, “Chicagoan Voting System!”, in National Review Online:

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bleg

noun

Internet An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.

I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?2008 August 29, Andrew Sullivan, “The Utter Arrogance Of It”, in The Atlantic:

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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.2010 September 9, James Wolcott, “A Grammar of Motives*”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2013:
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; […]2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, acknowledgments section, page 267:

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