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▪ I. blurt, v.|blɜːt|
[app. a modern onomatopœia, expressive of a discharge of breath or fluid from the mouth after an effort to retain it; with the bl- element, cf. blow, blast, blash, etc.; with the rest cf. spurt, spirt, squirt, etc.: see also blirt.]
1. intr. To emit the breath eruptively from the mouth; to snort in sleep. Also trans. with out. Now dial.
1611Cotgr., Souffler les choux en dormant, to puffe, or blurt out puffes, in sleeping. a1825MS. Poem (Jam.) He blortit an' startit.
†2. To make a contemptuous puffing gesture with the lips, to puff in scorn, to ‘pooh’. Obs.
a. intr. Also with indirect pass. to be blurted at.
1596Edw. III, iv. vi. (N.) All the world will blurt and scorn at us. 1601Shakes. Per. iv. iii. 34 None would look on her But cast their gazes on Marinas face; Whilst ours was blurted at. 1611Florio, Boccheggiare..to make mouths or blurt with ones lips. 1654Gayton Fest. Notes iv. xvii. 259 The other part..sneeze and blurt..make mouths, and flowt in Spanish postures.
b. trans. To treat contemptuously.
1621Fletcher Wild-G. Chase ii. ii, I never was so blurted, Nor ever so abused. a1663Sanderson Serm. (1681) 92 Baffled and Blurted by every lewd companion.
3. trans. (commonly with out): To utter abruptly, and as if by a sudden impulse; to ejaculate impulsively; to burst out with.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (1884) 9 Blurting out sutch iests as he had gottin togither for the nons. 1656H. More Enthus. Tri. (1712) 35 Blurting out any garish foolery that comes into their mind. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 566 Sometimes people will blurt out things inadvertently, which if judgment had been awake it would have suppressed. 1772Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. i, To blurt out the broad staring question of, Madam will you marry me. 1848Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 180 They are fortunate if they possess an indiscreet friend who blurts out the whole truth. 1854Mrs. Gaskell North & S. v, ‘Papa is going to leave Helstone!’ she blurted forth. 1876Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 147 To blurt a dash of broad-cast Scottish truth, Athwart his lisping lips.
fig.1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. iv. iv. 124, I should ha' done't slily without discouery, and now I am blurted upon 'em before I was aware.
b. absol.
1641Milton Animadv. Wks. (1851) 189 To blurt upon the eares of a judicious Parliament with such a..Proem.
4. transf. To thrust out abruptly.
1818Religio Clerici 52 Fled is the genuine Muse, and in her place A brisk pretender blurts her shameless face.
5. To burst out into weeping. (Cf. blirt.)
1843W. Carleton Traits I. 139 Able-bodied spalpeens blurting, like overgrown children, on seeing their own blood.
▪ II. blurt, n.|blɜːt|
[f. the vb.: see also blirt.]
†1. An eruptive emission of breath from the mouth, esp. as expressive of contempt. Obs.
1580North Plutarch (1676) 633 Meaning to give Cassander a slampant and blurt. 1611Florio, Chicchere, a..blurt with ones mouth in scorne or derision.
2. An abrupt impulsive utterance or outburst.
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VI. xvi. ix. 245 This blurt of La Mettrie's goes through him like a shot of electricity.
▪ III. blurt, adv. and int.
[The verb-stem used without const., as in ‘to go bang’, ‘to cut bang off’.]
A. adv. Blurting, with a blurt.
1698Vanbrugh Prov. Wife iii. iii, When they come blurt out with a nasty thing in a play.
†B. int. An exclamation of contempt: ‘pooh!’ ‘a fig for!’ See blurt v. 2. Obs.
1592Lyly Midas ii. ii. 21 Blirt to you both. 1602Middleton (title) (N.) Blurt, Master Constable. 1604Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 22 Blurt on your sentences. 1606in N. Riding Records (1883) I. 37 Will. Forde fined for using evill speaches to the Constable saying ‘Blirt, Mr. Constable’. |