blidget

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noun

In the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.

Scrabble 11

Meanings

nounblidget (plural blidgets)

plural blidgets

  1. InternetslangIn the context of blogging, a widget featuring a blog feed, which can be installed on another blog or website.

    In particular, a "blidget" allows users to display a section of their blog on other web sites.

    2008 April 30, Diana Ransom, “Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak”, in The Wall Street Journal
    2 more examples

    Widgetbox also gives you the tools to create your own widgets— either by turning your blog into a "blidget" that others can subscribe to or by coding something unique and adding it to the Widgetbox collection.

    2007 October, Robert Strohmeyer, “The 15 Best Web Apps You've Never Heard Of”, in Maximum PC

    Figure 9.22 on Page 235 shows the finished blidget for Social Media Power. Widgetbox blidgets like the one we just created are free, but they also offer a pro version for around $30 a year that allows you to design custom themes for you blidget, among other features.

    2009, Deltina Hay, A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web, Dalton Publishing, →ISBN, page 236

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. Englishwidget
  48. Englishblidget

Blend of blog + widget.

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Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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