blawg

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UK/blɔːɡ/US/blɔɡ/cot caught merger/blɑɡ/

noun

A weblog dealing with topics related to the law.

Less commonScrabble 11

Meanings

nounblawg (plural blawgs)

plural blawgs

  1. InternetA weblog dealing with topics related to the law.

    Keeping a blawg also can be helpful when you update your resume and compose cover letters[…]

    2004, American Bar Association, Student lawyer: Volume 33
    2 more examples

    If there is a blawg you would like to see added, please feel free to suggest that we add it to the list.

    2006, Carole A. Levitt, Mark E. Rosch, The lawyer's guide to fact finding on the Internet, page 738

    The vowel of blog can mutate, as when law blogs are called blawgs or requests via blog posts are called blegs (combining blog and beg).

    [2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine
verbblawg (third-person singular simple present blawgs, present participle blawging, simple past and past participle blawged)

present singular third person blawgs · participle present blawging · participle past blawged · past blawged

  1. InternetTo write about legal topics on a blog.

    Finally, do legal professionals owe a duty to society in general when blawging?

    2007, Anna P. Hemingway, “The ethical obligations of lawyers, law students and law professors telling stories on web logs”, in The Law Teacher, volume 41, number 3, page 294
    2 more examples

    When attorneys began blawging, their discourse was not so clearly public, despite the fact that blawgs are far more accessible to many more people than any advertisement.

    2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 233

    For example, I do this regularly in Internet Law through requiring my students to blawg.

    2013, David S. Levine, “What Can We Do on Monday to Improve Our Teaching?”, in Chapman Law Review, volume 17, number 1, page 32

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*weyh₁-?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*wiHrós
  3. Proto-Germanic*weraz
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂életi
  6. Proto-Germanic*alaną
  7. Proto-Germanic*aldiz
  8. Proto-Germanic*weraldiz
  9. Proto-West Germanic*weraldi
  10. Old Englishweorold
  11. Middle Englishworld
  12. Englishworld
  13. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  14. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  15. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  16. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
  17. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁ós
  18. Proto-Germanic*wīdaz
  19. Old Englishwīd
  20. Englishwide
  21. Englishworldwide
  22. Proto-Indo-European*webʰ-
  23. Proto-Germanic*webaną
  24. Proto-Germanic*wabją
  25. Old Englishwebb
  26. Middle Englishweb
  27. Englishweb
  28. EnglishWorld Wide Webellip.
  29. EnglishWeb
  30. Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
  31. Proto-Indo-European*légʰyeti
  32. Proto-Germanic*ligjaną
  33. Old Norseliggjader.?
  34. Middle Englishlogge
  35. Englishlog
  36. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
  37. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
  38. Proto-Germanic*bōks
  39. Proto-West Germanic*bōk
  40. Old Englishbōc
  41. Middle Englishbok
  42. Englishbook
  43. Englishlogbook
  44. Englishlog
  45. Englishweblog
  46. Englishblog
  47. Proto-Indo-European*legʰ-
  48. Proto-Germanic*lagą
  49. Old Norselag
  50. Old Norselǫg
  51. Old Englishlagu
  52. Middle Englishlawe
  53. Englishlaw
  54. Englishblawg

Blend of blog + law. Coined by American lawyer and podcaster Denise Howell.

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blog (General American)blog (General American)
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APA

blawg. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blawg

MLA

“blawg.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blawg. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “blawg,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blawg.

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