Crossword clues for blurb
blurb
- Book-jacket info
- Book jacket copy
- Writing on a book jacket
- Short promotional description
- Quote on a jacket
- Quote on a book's back cover
- Promotional quote on a book jacket
- Promotional paragraph
- Promo on a DVD case
- Praise-filled paragraph on the back of a book
- Praise on a book jacket
- Plug on a dust jacket
- Paragraph on a dust jacket
- Message on a jacket
- Message on a dust jacket
- Marketing text
- Just a line or two
- Jacket summary
- Jacket promo
- Jacket message
- Gelett Burgess' word for book jacket copy
- DVD case promo
- Dust jacket promo
- Dust jacket plug
- Dust jacket hype
- Dust jacket description
- Brief promotional prose
- Brief promo piece
- Brief endorsement for an author
- Brief commendatory advertisement
- Book-jacket writeup
- Book-jacket words
- Book-jacket reading
- Book-jacket quote
- Book-jacket promo
- Book-jacket comment
- Book-jacket bio
- Book quote
- Book publicity hype
- Book jacket notice
- Book jacket come-on
- Book jacket bio
- Book flap copy
- Back-of-the-text text
- Article teaser
- Advertising splurge
- Advertising spiel
- Ad on a DVD case
- This may be found on a jacket
- Dust jacket message
- Words on a book jacket
- Squib on a book jacket
- Brief ad
- Standard jacket feature
- Words on a jacket
- Book jacket writing
- Jacket material?
- Paragraph on a book jacket
- Judgment on a book's cover?
- A promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books)
- Rave notice
- Book-jacket statement
- Book-jacket item
- Book-jacket ad
- Laudatory ad
- Book-jacket bit
- Word coined by F.B. Burgess
- Advertisement on a book jacket
- Short publicity notice
- Promotional piece
- Words of praise on a book jacket
- Short, laudatory notice
- Obscure book? This description might help
- Short printed promotional statement
- Short book description
- Publisher’s way of advertising obscure book
- Promotional words on a book jacket
- Promotional statement on a book's dust jacket
- Promotional guff
- Promotional description
- Book jacket bit
- Book jacket write-up
- Ad copy
- Book jacket info
- Book jacket promo
- Promotional statement
- Book-jacket paragraph
- Book-jacket copy
- Book jacket quote
- Book jacket passage
- Book jacket entry
- Book flap bit
- Jacket quote
- Dust jacket write-up
- Dust cover come-on
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
used by U.S. scholar Brander Matthews (1852-1929) in 1906 in "American Character;" popularized 1907 by U.S. humorist Frank Gelett Burgess (1866-1951). Originally mocking excessive praise printed on book jackets.\n\nGelett Burgess, whose recent little book, "Are You a Bromide?" has been referred to above, then entertained the guests with some characteristic flashes of Burgessian humor. Referring to the word "blurb" on the wrapper of his book he said: "To 'blurb' is to make a sound like a publisher. The blurb was invented by Frank A. Munsey when he wrote on the front of his magazine in red ink 'I consider this number of Munsey's the hottest pie that ever came out of my bakery.' ... A blurb is a check drawn on Fame, and it is seldom honored.["]
["Publishers' Weekly," May 18, 1907]
Wiktionary
n. A short description of a book, film, musical work, or other product written and used for promotional purposes. vb. To write or quote something in a #Noun
WordNet
n. a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books); "the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book" [syn: endorsement, indorsement]
Wikipedia
A blurb is a short promotional piece accompanying a creative work. It may be written by the author or publisher or quote praise from others. Blurbs were originally printed on the back or rear dust-jacket of a book, and are now found on DVD and video cases, web portals, and news websites. A blurb may introduce a newspaper or magazine feature story.
Usage examples of "blurb".
Hugo Gernsback, the publisher, was moved to write a special editorial instead of the customary blurb for this story.
The blurb mocks itself: Van knows its buoyant blitheness reflects only his own first raptures at Ardis, not his later discovery that life always mixes radiance and remorse.
A book can be produced in a slipshod manner or it can have a repulsive book jacket, or include blurbs that give away the plot or clearly indicate that the blurb writer didn follow the plot.
If you sell a story to a magazine you may feel it is incompetently illustrated, or dislike the blurb, or worry about misprints.
There, squeezed in among elections, bounties, union warnings, draft notices, tax bulletins, was the brief blurb on Claron.
The blurb had been sponsored by the Langstretch Detective Agency, which in turn started Floyt fretting over Alacrity and wondering what was happening to him.
Contrast its restrained tone with, say, the products of modern advertising, political speeches, authoritative theological pronouncements - or for that matter the blurb on the cover of this book.
And when blurbs to that effect became available from other authors and critics, Little, Brown put them on postcards and dispatched another series of three.
I need to know if you sent any copies out for blurbs without telling me?
Softened up and spoonfed by these glutinous blurbs, the actors then fell refreshed into the carping, spite-crammed dialogue, which gave them the chance to express their real feelings about each other.
The blurb was worded to persuade cynics like me that hiring an escort was no iffier than hiring a carpet shampooer, and a lot more fun.
To be made even triter than the original Book of the Fortnight, and its gurgling blurbs?
Janusz, the Rasputin lookalike outlaw, appeared in a forthright Wanted blurb.
A DRAGON IN THE LAND OF DRAGONS, as The New fork Times had uncharacteristically blurbed it If we could just get the dragon to eat its own tail .
As I shuffled down the aisle with my Orwell and my pint, and as an hysterical voice-over blurbed the coming attractions ('.