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# blahs

«blahs» in Mova's school dictionary: **A feeling of being bored, tired, fed up or slightly sad…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (the blahs, plural, informal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (US, informal) A feeling of being bored, tired, fed up or slightly sad, without a clear reason. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#m1)

2) (informal) The plural of «blah», as in blah blah blah: boring or empty talk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in US everyday talk, especially about winter: «the winter blahs», «a case of the blahs». In comics and stories «blah, blah, blah» stands for talk that is boring or not worth repeating.

### examples

- I've got the Monday morning blahs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#x1)
- The winter blahs make everyone grumpy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#x2)
- A walk in the sunshine can cure the blahs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#x3)
- All his blahs about football bored me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#x4)
- She had a case of the blahs after the holidays ended. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/#x5)

### note

Informal; mostly American. Usually «the blahs». Not used in formal writing. If someone has the blahs for a long time, they should talk to a grown-up or a doctor.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blahs» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blahs/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.