Saturday, June 09, 2007
Bleb
A bleb is actually a small blister or bubble found on skin, water or glass. I've seen those blebs in glass before. Now I know what they're called. Once again a wonderful array of invented meanings have made it to the blog today. Winners on the poll, with exactly the same number of votes, were Pirate Jim and Fz. Both well deserved!
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Bleb is the sound made by a tuatara. It's a high pitched chirping sound which is not easy to hear. In fact, many people don't realise the tuatara actually makes a noise.
A bleb is the name given to a build up of ink on the end of a biro nib.
Bleb is the kind of burping sound when you have had something liquid.
BLEB: A pygmy whale!
bleb : the strange feeling you get when you touch things with wird surface!
A bleb is the creamish-white, pus-resembling, sticky goo that you find at the corner of your eyes (in the depths between your eyes and your nose) when you wake up every morning.
A bleb is a small black stone which has been programmed to find its way into your shoe's and burrow into your heel, ideally when there is nothing around to lean on.
A bleb is an uncoordinated tongue, one that interchanges letters randomly and hangs strangely in its mouth, much like John Mayer's. (Bless him, he's a good musician but that tongue is just... well, bleb.)
bleb is the twinkling hazy light shone from the headgear of a scuba diver...
Actually, a bleb is a disappearing comment you posted to a blog.
You type in a comment, type in the word verification twice because it didn't work the first time) and then poof! It's gone and it didn't post! That's a bleb.
To bleb is to mispronounce a word or phrase due to some glitch/event in one's respiratory system or upper digestive tract. Hiccupping, burping, catching one's breath or even suddenly (unexpectedly or spasmodically) momentarily inhaling while speaking and can often cause one to bleb.
Like cracking in the voice of a voice of a boy going through puberty, or the blasting of a high-pressure fart, blebbing is typically embarassing for the person who blebs, but often a source of amusment for those who hear it.
Bleb: To drip slowly, as in a viscous fluid. Most commonly used where some amount of a substance such as honey is lifted from a container and allowed to 'bleb' back for dramatic effect.
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bleb:The complex tangle of microscopic eggs laid by the leafy sea-dragon fish, found off the south coast of Australia.
past tense of "blab."
a fibrous band in the tongue of certain carnivorous mammals
the incoherent sounds of shock or amazement made when a person is overcome with emotion; the inability to pronounce words properly or completely; sometimes found in persons in a state of infatuation.
When a bulb dies, you say it has blebed a way. All fused bulbs go to bleb heaven.
Bleb - verb
A false stagger for theatrical effect.
Blebbing is how pop stars demonstrate vulnerability on stage to a stadium sized audience. Though very unpopular within the boy band tradition (boy bands love tight choreography), NSync agreed to bleb as long as they could pretend to be puppets on strings.
Bono is the most well known blebber because his bleb has continued to evolve throughout his career. During the Joshua Tree tour his bleb emerged as a sort of slip stop at the end of the stage as though he almost fell in while running up to it. The ZOO-TV tour had him blebbing aside his microphone stand as though he'd lost his balance. The key move came when one leg would come up off the stage and hover there while he regained his "balance". Bono's bleb has been copied by many (Rolling Stone noted that Jack White of the White Stripes sports a remarkable "BonoBleb"). In fact it is nearly as much his trademark as his wraparound glasses.
A "Bleb" is a classification of obesity, one step before a "Blob"!
" I saw a Bleb trying to get in shape on a treadmill, He looked much better than the Blob next to him.."
a polyp
Bleb: (verb) what you do when you're bored, but can't think of anything to do, or are so overwhelmed, you can't do anything.
Mergatroid continued to bleb on the couch, contemplating the meaningless of her life.
A bleb is a blob of icing that's gone wrong and wonky, rather than dainty and ornate.
Hi, Word Imp! Many congrats on the Blog of Note status! All the best from us.
Bleb - (noun) a bib made of leather. Very popular during the Neanderthal period of man. Not PETA friendly.
"No self-respecting, animal-loving baby would be seen wearing a bleb these days."
Bleb…Ah, the bleb. Well I’m not sure I should explain this as it is a secret among the men folk. Sorry guys, here we go. The bleb began back in ancient times. Though, no one truly knows a specific date as to the origin and time of the first bleb. However the bleb is used daily by men all over the world and is the true source of women and children thinking we are idiots. The bleb is the intentional botching up of a particularly simple, yet mundane job so that the blebber will not be asked or expected to do that job again in the future. For example, men hate doing laundry. We know you have to separate the darks and lights. But when one “blebs” the job and washes dark clothes with the wife’s and kids’ good light colored clothes, one gets out of doing the laundry. We know our colors but we just bleb it up so out of exasperation our significant others will do the job. Sometimes a job needs to be blebbed more than once. Some of us never know where anything is. Not because we can’t find it, but because we don’t want to take the time to search. This also is a bleb so that someone else will go and find the item. My first bleb, as a young boy, was when I was asked to help my mother wash the good china. I blebbed, dropped and broke a plate, and was immediately excused from washing the good china, which is what I wanted in the first place. Men are not idiots just blebbers!
Thank you for clarifying that so well, Pirate Jim. This is something I have long suspected. In fact, my grandfather alerted me to the bleb when I first went flatting with other young people. He warned me against displaying any expertise in the kitchen, as I would invariably get given every job I appeared to be good at. So, you are right. However, all other invented meanings for bleb are still welcome.
bleb is actually the acronym Bl.E.B. This stands for the blog envy blues. This cyber form of jealousy is often accompanied by anger or temporary depression. Bl.E.B. occurs when a blogger creates what they believe to be a masterful entry on word imperfect, confident in a top three nomination... perhaps even a sweep of the invented meaning of the day award. All these grandiose dreams are dashed when the confident blogger reads a meaning equivalent to Michaelangelo's David in it's literary perfection and realizes every word was in vain and... all is lost.
"Mandy cursed her computer and buried her sorrowful face in her hands when she read Scallywagger's meaning for francolin."
What a great site! Thank you, Blogs of Note, for finding this site--it's da bleb!
Bleb... A bleb is a person that will say three words and start shaking there head as if they were saying no over and over again, they often expect you to understand them. A bleb might say something like this,"I can't take this "... ( now the person is looking STRAIGHT at you)"I mean"...(now they are shaking there head as if to say no) "Do you understand me?"
They once again are looking STRAIGHT at you. By now you are slowly and cluelessly shaking your head no as they walk away.Later your think about how odd and funny you thought they were. Some people become blebbegures (bleb-ejerz) as their career.A blebbegure is a person who is a true bleb
in real life and puts there talents to use confusing their coworkers. To us, blebs are odd but to them we are odd because we never understand them.
I have to say whatever happens, P.J. and I are voting for looneylydy. Ya, we're proud parents. She weaves a good web for a 4th grader !
Hello Mandy,
I guess I've created a mini quaquaversy of my own by not including your meaning on the top three! In my defence, yes, it was a great invented meaning. I had a list of about nine of my favourite meanings when I chose the final three and yours was certainly among them. However, because you were the winner on the poll the previous day, I tried to include other names, simply to spread the love. It is definitely a difficult job for me. I wish everyone could be winners and I realise some will feel sad that their meanings aren't included in the top three. I hope you understand and continue to add your great meanings. I do apologise for the bleb! All the best and thanks for visiting my blog. Sharon.
Word Imp, Don't worry. If I never win again this is still the most fun we've had in a long time. My kid who says," I hate writing paragraph!" can't wait to get on W.I. and loves to write her I.M.... and critique Mom and Dad's!
Bleb: A Finnish word used by the commercial fishermen off the coast of Finland, meaning the callous buildup on the thumb and fore finger, from repeatedly removing hooks from the mouths of large fish such as Tuna.
A bleb is the slime trail left by a snail. Highly visible if the ssnail traverses a window.
Wordimp - too many meanings. I cannot even hazard an original guess so Im voting for -the lisa show and the definition of a blebby tongue ! Also pirate jim and his broad definition of blebbism !
Excerpted from:
mini-Annals of Improbable Research ("mini-AIR")
Issue Number 2002-11
November, 2002
see http://improbable.com/
2002-11-08 Bleb Results
Here are the winners of the first and last annual BLEB LIMERICK COMPETITION, for the best (NEWLY composed!) limerick that elucidates this research report:
"A Case of a 360 Degree Exuberant Trabeculectomy Bleb," J.D Rossiter, S.J. Godfrey, K.G. Claridge, Eye, vol. 13, part 3a, June 1999, pp. 369-70.
The winner, who will receive a free non-Trabeculectomized copy of an issue of the Annals of Improbable Research, is the team of INVESTIGATORS HEATHER B. ZACKER AND DAVID C. HARLOW, who created this vision of light and clarity:
I can study the tides as they ebb!
Or a spider as she spins a web!
So exub'rant am I
Since the doc fixed my eye
With a trabeculectomy bleb!
Blebs, especially trabeculectomy blebs, are a subject of popular fascination. Here are but two of the nigh innumerable runners-up in the bleb limerick contest:
INVESTIGATOR J. L. JONES:
Now I'm back in my hospital bed
My months of glaucoma have fled
But since the incision
I've 360 degree vision
Like eyes in the back of my head.
INVESTIGATOR D. MCKENNA:
There once was a woman named Deb,
Whose eyesight had started to ebb,
"Marijuana aroma
Didn't help my glaucoma
So... Trabeculectomy bleb!
Is Bleb anything like a Pleb. Only joking. Good site!
Regards Peter
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(n) The Pink secretion formed at the back of one's throat while drinking sweetened cranberry juice.
(v) The act of coughing up a bleb as listed above.
interesting this is an actual slang word where i come from Trinidad. It's used to describe someone who may have messed up or is clumsy or slow to catch on to things. Such as You real blep eh!
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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