blurbとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /blɝ(ː)b/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)b

名詞

blurb (plural blurbs)

1. A short description of a book, film, or other work, written and used for promotional purposes.
   • 1978 July 23, William Cole, “The Blurb and I”, in The New York Times‎:

     In a few weeks, blurbs would come back; a few, or many, depending on the book. There were certain writers we knew were always good for a blurb: Louis Untermeyer would always come through — poetry, fiction, humor — whatever, he'd send a well‐turned commendation.

派生語

動詞

blurb (third-person singular simple present blurbs, present participle blurbing, simple past and past participle blurbed)

1. (transitive) To write or quote in a blurb.
   • 2007 July 4, David M. Halbfinger, “Appearing Way Before the Film: The Review”, in New York Times‎:

     When Rene Rodriguez of The Miami Herald blogged about having seen and loved “The Departed” in Toronto in a supposedly private screening last fall, Warner Brothers “scolded me very strongly,” he said, “but they still blurbed a line from my blog in their opening ad.”

2. (transitive) To supply with a blurb.
   • 2012 April 17, Jon Michaud, “Blurb This!”, in The New Yorker‎:

     The unseemly business of book blurbing has been source of both humor and concern in the pages of The New Yorker.

   • 2015, Peter Simonson, David W. Park, The International History of Communication Study, page 268:

     Edward R. Murrow and other leading radio personalities blurbed the book, published in 1950 by Oxford University Press, and Siepmann thanked Paul Lazarsfeld and Herta Herzog in his acknowledgments.

参考

• capsule review

参照

Further reading

• blurb on Wikipedia.Wikipedia