Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Jewelry or fashion accessories, usually made of metal or other shiny material.
- noun Showy or ostentatious items.
- adjective Deliberately showy; ostentatious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Variant of
bling bling . - noun Ostentatious display of
richness or style.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flashy, ostentatious jewelry
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These dress-code offenders wear baggy pants, du-rags, flash their \ "bling bling\" like gold chains, and \ "decorative orthodontic appliances\" like gold teeth, and tattoos, bringing too much of black urban ghetto life to an elite college that fashions itself as the paragon of black manhood.
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These dress-code offenders wear baggy pants, du-rags, flash their \ "bling bling\" like gold chains, and \ "decorative orthodontic appliances\" like gold teeth, and tattoos, bringing too much of black urban ghetto life to an elite college that fashions itself as the paragon of black manhood.
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
Giddy Tigers 2008
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
Giddy Tigers 2008
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
Giddy Tigers 2008
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
Giddy Tigers 2008
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
Giddy Tigers 2008
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* bling bling* how do u make the chain photo frames at the bottom? so nice!
Giddy Tigers 2008
tellurian commented on the word bling
A veritable pox upon society; both this word and that which it defines. Representative of everything that is awful about gaudy, materialistic, thoughtless celebrity culture.
Sadly it could be a rather pretty word in and of itself if it didn't have the connotations it does; it could be a sea-bird or a kind of knot. Is anyone out there willing to help reclaim "bling"?
November 1, 2007
uselessness commented on the word bling
I used to use it in reference to classic video games and the sounds they made, before the word took on the current definition. Actually I used the phrase bling bling, which was just a weird coincidence I guess.
Also, I first mistyped "reference" as "reverence," which is a sad but true Freudian slip. :-P
November 1, 2007
cathari commented on the word bling
I could have made the same slip. (Is it sad that I don't even find anything sad about the slip? =P)
November 15, 2007
bilby commented on the word bling
I think it's a useful word. I saw a reference to 'pirate bling' in the window a costume shop the other day and I immediately knew what they were talking about. Much more so than if they had written 'pirate accessories'.
November 23, 2007
skeptic commented on the word bling
It's baby talk!!
February 3, 2008
sionnach commented on the word bling
Then there's warbling which is what Daddy Warbucks does over his ill-gotten gains.
Annie: 'What's that noise?'
'Oh, that's just Daddy Warbucks warbling over his warbling.'
February 3, 2008
Dan337 commented on the word bling
Google Books’ premature presbyopia render it useless for finding early citations of this particular word. I am nonetheless cheered to be reminded of H.G. Wells’ classic story, “The Country of the Bling”:
http://books.google.com/books?id=sok7HQAACAAJ
September 24, 2011
mollusque commented on the word bling
Searching for bling along with words related to jewelry in Google Books suggests that it appeared around 1999.
September 24, 2011
jennarenn commented on the word bling
This word needs to die. It particularly offends me when my very white, very uncool mother uses the word.
January 16, 2012