it started in the early 1900's when a fictitious lady called Miss Belinda Blurb was shown 'in the act of Blurbing'. In order to promote a book, the publishers printed a resume on the dust jacket and Miss Belinda Blurb was used to voice the words of the resume. After a while, Miss Blurb was 'dropped' and just the resume remained, as it does to this day.
Because Mrs Blurb first read short introductions to books in the early 1900's.
Because a girl called miss blurb first read a short intro to books in the early 1900's the name was dropped and blurb remained!
To give you a brief summary of what the book is about. This helps you decide if it is the kind of book that you would like to read.
The word "blurb" is not an abbreviation, or short form, of another word. It was first used in 1914 by G. Burgess to mean "A flamboyant advertisement; an inspired testimonial." Though "blurb" is an American slang term, it does not come from a longer word.
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blurb oviously mean like the definition of promting the stuff blah blah blah, but whats really important in life, is it answering stupid qs that nobody cares about or is it about getting out in the world and doin stuff that's actually important like goin to parties getting a six pack,drinking a six pack, vomiting a sixpack, buying another six pack...my name is [TAWYER], one day everyone will know who i am, i can almost garantee this, so why ur doin ur normal job, well what u think is, traking down people like me writing stuff that isn't actually a dictinary definintion remember [TAWYER] thank you, i would love for u to contact me through, Daniel@hotmail.com so we can descuss how my fame will come around
A glossary is usually situated at the back of a book. The back cover of a book usually contains a blurb about the contents of the book.
Well, it can be called several things... epilogue, postscript, afterword... and there are lots of specialized things that you could see at the end of a book too, like Glossaries or an Index, or an Appendix, or an Addendum. :) Grouped together, all the stuff at the back is called "back matter."
A brief advertisement is called a blurb. A brief advertisement is called a blurb.
The Passage on the back cover of a book is called a Blurb.
The blurb.
Blurb
The words on the back of a book are called the book blurb or back cover copy. They provide a brief summary of the book to entice readers to pick it up and learn more.
The back cover of a DVD contains the synopsis or blurb that summarizes what the movie or TV show is about.
I read a Blurb about the author at the back of a book.
a blurb is a piece of infomation at the back of the book (clue to the story
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Synopsis.
A brief publicity notice, as on a book jacket.Read more: blurb
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