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noun
Mendacious boasting that lacks seriousness; falsehood or humbug, especially when it is told mockingly or without the expectation that anyone believes it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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verb
To utter blague; to tell a falsehood that no one seriously believes; to bullshit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from French blague. Doublet of belly.
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