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==English==
{{was wotd|2012|November|20}}

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/blɛɡ/}}
* {{audio|en|en-au-bleg.ogg|a=AU}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɛɡ|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
{{unk|en}}

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|Northeast England}} A [[pouting]] ({{taxfmt|Trisopterus luscus|species}}).
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=4 July 2007|author=Jack Melton|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/fresh-water-gives-shore-anglers-a-clear-problem-1-1136964|title=Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem|journal=Sunderland Echo|text=Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting ('''bleg''')}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=7 November 2007|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/sea-angling-latest-1-1140926|title=Sea Angling latest|journal=Sunderland Echo|text=
#*: Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting ('''blegs''') on squid.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=29 May 2008|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/sea-angling-wear-in-doldrums-tyne-and-tees-looking-up-1-1149804|title=Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up|journal=Sunderland Echo|text=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'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=10 December 2010|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/sport/fishing-pier-marks-look-favourite-for-big-open-1-1082620|title=Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open|journal=Sunderland Echo|text=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'''.}}

===Etymology 2===
{{blend|en|blog|beg}}.<ref>{{cite-web|author=Ben Zimmer|title=Web|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/magazine/14FOB-onlanguage-t.html|work=The New York Times Magazine|date=11 November 2010|passage=The vowel of ''blog'' can mutate, as when law blogs are called ''blawgs'' or requests via blog posts are called ''blegs'' (combining ''blog'' and ''beg'').}}</ref> {{coin|en|Q1659427|notext=1|nobycat=1}} claims to have coined the verb in 2002,<ref>{{cite-web|author=John Derbyshire|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20021019141812/http://nationalreview.com/derbyshire/derbyshire080102.asp|title=July Diary|work=National Review Online|date=August 1, 2002|passage=The verb "to bleg" — coined, I believe, by yours truly — means "to use your blog to beg for assistance from readers.")}}</ref> although earlier usage may have occurred.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{senseid|en|blog}} {{lb|en|internet slang}} An [[entry]] on a [[blog]] requesting [[information]] or [[contribution]]s.
#: {{ux|en|I posted a '''bleg''' in the hope of learning more about local tourism.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=29 August 2008|author=Andrew Sullivan|url=http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2008/08/the-utter-arrogance-of-it/212312/|title=The Utter Arrogance Of It|work=The Atlantic|text=Here's a '''bleg''': can anyone direct me to any statement she [Sarah Palin] has ever made about foreign policy?}}
#* {{quote-journal|1=en|date=9 September 2010|author=James Wolcott|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/09/gelsey-krammer-is-superb-comic|title=A Grammar of Motives*|work=Vanity Fair|text=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.|accessdate=13 November 2012|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114085248/http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/09/gelsey-krammer-is-superb-comic|archivedate=14 January 2013}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2012|author=Elizabeth Kantor|title=The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After|publisher=Regnery Publishing, Inc.|isbn=9781596987845|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=If35xfuZUMwC&pg=PA267|page=267|section=acknowledgments section|text=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; {{…}}}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|internet slang}} To create an [[entry]] on a [[blog]] requesting [[information]] or [[contribution]]s.
#: {{ux|en|That guy will '''bleg''' on the most unusual topics.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Strange looks and funny lines from the past week|journal=Atlanta Journal-Constitution|date=18 May 2008
|passage=The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro '''blegged''' for modern proverbs.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=John J. Miller|title=Novels of the Right, cont.|titleurl=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/190921/novels-right-cont/john-j-miller#|journal=National Review Online|date=30 November 2009
|passage=About ten days ago, I '''blegged''' for comments about great conservative novels — ''NRO'' readers now have posted more than 200 entries here [hyperlink redacted].}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Curtis Brainard|title=It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…|titleurl=http://www.cjr.org/the_observatory/its_tanking_im_teaching.php|journal=Columbia Journalism Review|date=7 August 2009
|passage=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."}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Iain Murray|title=Chicagoan Voting System!|titleurl=http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/197965/chicagoan-voting-system/iain-murray|journal=National Review Online|date=15 April 2010
|passage=Yesterday, I shamelessly '''blegged''' people to vote for my son in a ''Parents'' magazine cutest kid contest.}}

=====See also=====
* {{l|en|lazyweb}}

===References===
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===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=begl|Belg.}}

{{C|en|Blogging|Gadiforms}}

==Danish==

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|da|non|bleikr}}, from {{inh|da|gem-pro|*blaikaz}}. Related to {{m|da|blege}}.

====Adjective====
{{da-adj}}

# [[pale]], [[pallid]]

=====Inflection=====
{{da-infl-adj||est}}

===Etymology 2===
{{nonlemma}}

====Verb====
{{head|da|verb form}}

# {{infl of|da|blege||imp}}

==Romanian==

===Etymology===
{{bor+|ro|cu|благъ}}, from {{der|ro|sla-pro|*bolgъ||good}}. Compare {{cog|sh|blag}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|ro|/bleɡ/}}

===Adjective===
{{ro-adj|f=bleagă|fp=blege}}

# [[soft]], [[shy]], [[silly]], [[dull]], [[weak]], [[foolish]], [[sheepish]]
# {{lb|ro|of ears, usually animals}} going [[down]], [[droopy]]

====Declension====
{{ro-decl-adj|f=bleagă|fp=blege}}

==Scots==

===Alternative forms===
* {{l|sco|bleget}}

===Etymology===
From {{der|sco|non|bleikr}}.

===Adjective===
{{head|sco|adjective}}

# {{lb|sco|of colour}} [[light|Light]] and [[drab]], esp. of (wool of) sheep.

===References===
* https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/bleg_adj