Bleg

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Noun

1. (Northeast England) A pouting (Trisopterus luscus).
• 2007, Jack Melton, "Fresh water gives shore anglers a clear problem", Sunderland Echo, 4 July 2007:Steve Thompson, on the Moonshadow, won last Wednesday’s WBA boat competition with the only fish of the night, a 1lb 8oz pouting (bleg)
• 2007, "Sea Angling latest", Sunderland Echo, 7 November 2007:Boats are taking ling to 18lb as well as codling to 5lbs and loads of pout whiting (blegs) on squid.
• 2008, "Sea Angling: Wear in doldrums, Tyne and Tees looking up", Sunderland Echo, 29 May 2008: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.
• 2009, "Fishing: Pier marks look favourite for Big Open", Sunderland Echo, 10 December 2010: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.

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Ben Zimmer, "Web", The New York Times, 11 November 2010

Anglo-American writer claims to have coined this word in 2002,

John Derbyshire, "July Diary", National Review Online, 1 August 2002

although earlier usage may have occurred.

Noun

1. (internet slang) An entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.I posted a bleg in the hope of learning more about local tourism.
• 2008, Andrew Sullivan, "The Utter Arrogance Of It", The Atlantic, 29 August 2008:Here's a bleg: can anyone direct me to any statement she Palin has ever made about foreign policy?
• 2010, James Wolcott, "A Grammer of Motives*", Vanity Fair, 9 September 2010: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.
• 2012, Elizabeth Kantor, The Jane Austen Guide to Happily Ever After, Regnery Publishing, Inc. (2012), ISBN 9781596987845, page 267 (acknowledgments section):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

1. (internet slang) To create an entry on a blog requesting information or contributions.That guy will bleg on the most unusual topics.
• 2008, "Strange looks and funny lines from the past week", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 18 May 2008:The Freakonomics blog posted a "bleg" from "Yale Book of Quotations" editor Fred Shapiro, in which Shapiro blegged for modern proverbs.
• 2009, John J. Miller, "Novels of the Right, cont.", National Review Online, 30 November 2009:About ten days ago, I blegged for comments about great conservative novels — NRO readers now have posted more than 200 entries here redacted.
• 2009, Curtis Brainard, "It’s Tanking; I’m Teaching…", Columbia Journalism Review, 7 August 2009: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."
• 2010, Iain Murray, "Chicagoan Voting System!", National Review Online, 15 April 2010:Yesterday, I shamelessly blegged people to vote for my son in a Parents magazine cutest kid contest.