blurb
noun /blɜːb/
/blɜːrb/
- a short description of a book, a new product, etc., written by the people who have produced it, that is intended to attract your attention and make you want to buy it
- publisher’s blurbs
- The blurb says that this is Tarantino’s greatest movie.
Word Originearly 20th cent.: coined by Gelett Burgess (died 1951), American humorist.