Slang dictionary
blep
[blep]
What does blep mean?
Who’s the聽chonky boi doin’ a blep?
In the internet slang of DoggoLingo, a 产濒别辫听is when an animal, often a dog or cat, has a portion of their tongue hanging out of their mouth.
Where does blep come from?
DoggoLingo is an internet slang that shows affection for animals, especially our pet dogs and cats, with cutesy misspellings and onomatopoeia, among other features. A small dog? More like a smol pupper.
How about when the tip of a pet’s tongue plops out? That’s a blep. A blep is not a full-tongued pant. Nor it is a chops-licking聽mlem鈥搕hat’s another DoggoLingo sound effect, usually reserved for when a dog or cat licks their nose.
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Blep might just be the pinnacle of adorable things our furry (or scaly) friends can do. Starting in 2014,聽blep was the name of a subreddit聽dedicated to pictures of cats blepping.听Imgur and Urban Dictionary both discussed blep鈥攁nd their close cousin, mlem鈥攊n 2015.
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While it appears to have been originally associated with cats, blep spread to all sorts of adorable animals as DoggoLingo spread in the late 2010s.
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And oh, why do animals blep? It might be to “taste the air” to gather more information about their environs, according to a slew of articles on the blep phenomenon in 2018.
Examples of blep
Who uses blep?
In need of a dose of cuteness? Search聽blep or #blep on social media. The term is widely used as a comment, caption, or title to various images and videos of animals blepping online.
I got her a week ago, and she's been bleping every time she sleeps. I think its the cutest!
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Blep
馃摲 @miss_poppet_the_samoyed
— Pet Snuggles (@petsnuggle)
Now, DoggoLingo purists will insist upon a distinction between a blep and a mlem. The former, they will maintain, is when a part of the tongue is stuck out, as if inadvertently. The latter is a lick, usually a quick, intentional one of the nose or mouth.
Is this a or ? .
馃摳: dash_and_furrious
— Oh My Corgi! (@OhMyCorgi)
For extra adoration, use blep in a DoggoLingo sentence: My cat is doin’ a blep!
Note
This is not meant to be a formal definition of blep like most terms we define on 亚洲网紅露点, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of blep that will help our users expand their word mastery.