BLABBING

BLAB

chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble

(verb) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

blabbing

present participle of blab

Noun

blabbing (plural blabbings)

Gossip; the telling of tales.

Anagrams

• babbling

Source: Wiktionary


BLAB

Blab, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blabbed (p. pr. & vb. n. Blabbing.] Etym: [Cf. OE. blaberen, or Dan. blabbre, G. plappern, Gael. blabaran a stammerer; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. also Blubber, v.]

Definition: To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion. Udall. And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. Tennyson.

Blab, v. i.

Definition: To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales. She must burst or blab. Dryden.

Blab, n. Etym: [OE. blabbe.]

Definition: One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." Milton. For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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