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blog

BLAWG/blɔɡ/UKBLOG/blɒɡ/

Pluralblogs

Verbblogs, blogging, blogged

5 meanings of blog

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  1. 1
    websitenouncountable
    A website, written like an online journal, where people reflect, share opinions, and discuss topics, often allowing readers to comment on posts.

    Her blog grew into a popular destination for political commentary.

    The company runs a blog to keep customers updated on new products.

    UsageYou post on a blog, and a blog is usually about something: a blog about cooking.

    Similarweblog

    Note

    Biz Stone's Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content (2002) already claimed the blog had been around since the beginning of the web. By Zadie Smith's NW (2012), a character can speak of "our blog" as casually as of a family album.

  2. 2
    single postnouncountable
    A single post or entry published on a blog.

    His blog on the merger sparked a long debate in the comments.

    Each blog she publishes covers one recipe in detail.

    UsageBlog can mean one entry or the whole site, so publish a blog can be ambiguous. Blog post clearly means one entry.

    Similarpost, entry

  3. 3
    write onlineverbtransitive or intransitive
    To write or contribute posts to a blog.

    He began to blog about his recovery, posting updates each week.

    Many journalists now blog alongside their regular reporting.

    UsageUsually blog about a topic. The g doubles: blogged, blogging.

    Similarpost

    Note

    Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do? (2009) uses it intransitively: "I hadn't blogged myself." Biz Stone (2002) has a blogger who "blogged his assessment," with the thing written as its direct object.

Less common meanings

  1. 4
    stealverbslangBritishtransitive
    To steal something, or to acquire it through illegal means.

    Similarsteal, nick, pinch, swipe, lift

    Note

    This is British slang for stealing, a separate word from the online one, although it shares the spelling and the forms blogged and blogging. It runs close to blag, the better-known slang verb it is explained by. Because most readers now hear the internet meaning first, context has to carry the sense: he blogged the watch could also mean he wrote about it online.

  2. 5
    verbobsoleteWest Country
    To wear a sullen or sulky expression.
    Note

    This verb belongs to old West Country speech and has long been obsolete. It is a separate word from the web-writing verb and only shares its spelling. The Exmoor Scolding, a Devon dialect dialogue first printed in 1727, uses it in a string of complaints, "blogging or glumping, rearing or snapping," where it is paired with glump, another sulking word.

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Origin

Formed by rebracketing "weblog" (from "web" + "log"). Peter Merholz recalled coining the short form in April or May 1999, and in August 1999 Keith Dawson's "Jargon Scout" feature listed "blog" and credited him. "Blog" is now so much more common than "weblog" that the latter is sometimes misspelled "webblog," as if from "web" + "blog."

Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 4 facts