Words at Play : Top 10 Authorisms
Definition:
: a short publicity notice (as on a book jacket)
About the Word:
The word was coined in 1907 by American author and humorist Gelett Burgess, who employed a book jacket embellished with a drawing of a pulchritudinous young lady whom he facetiously dubbed Miss Belinda Blurb. It was later given a full definition in his 1914 comic dictionary Burgess Unabridged.
The term gained such immediate acceptance that all friendly endorsements became known as blurbs.
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