blog

Meanings

Noun

• A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)
• An individual post to a blog.
• Alternate spelling of Blog

Verb

• To contribute to a blog.
• To blag, to steal something; to acquire something illegally.
• To look sullen or sulky

Origin

• . The Oxford English Dictionary says the shortened word was coined May 23, 1999 and references the "Jargon Watch" article in an issue of an online magazine which attributes the shortening to Peter Merholz.