Reblogged

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Reposted content originally published by another blogger to one's own blog or social media feed
2. Shared someone else's blog post or online content to one's own audience by rebroadcasting it on a blogging platform
3. Republished another user's blog entry or social media post on one's own account or blog feed

Etymology: "Reblogged" is the past tense of "reblog," formed from the prefix "re-" ("again") and "blog," so it means to post again something that someone else has already posted on a blog or social platform. The source confirms only that structure, so the rest of the story is what the word's parts reveal. The "blog" half is itself a clipping: it was shortened from "weblog," a term for an online journal. Because "re-" attaches freely to verbs in English, "reblog" needed no special invention. It simply extends the old meaning of repeating an action to a new digital context, where sharing someone else's post passes it along to a fresh audience. The past form "reblogged" follows the regular pattern for verbs ending in a consonant, so it adds "-ed" without any change in spelling beyond the doubled "g," which keeps the short vowel in the preceding syllable.

Synonyms: reposted, reshared