blabn.¹

Brit.

/blab/, U.S.

/blæb/

Forms: Middle English–1600s blabbe, 1500s– blab.

Etymology: The history of blab and blabber, and the question of their mutual relations, if any, is very obscure. Blabbe noun ‘chatterer’ occurs in Chaucer c1374, and is very common thenceforth; blab noun ‘chatter, loose talk’ is in Tale of Beryn (c1400), but has not been found elsewhere before the 16th cent., when appears also blab verb ‘to chatter’ (1535), followed in course by its agent noun blabber . But the verb blabber is earlier than any of these; it occurs in Piers Ploughman (1362), and is (with its derivative blabberer ) very common in Wyclif; the facts thus forbid us to take blabber as a frequentative derivative of blab verb; while no analogy exists for the formation of either (of the only two early words) blabbe noun, blabber verb, from the other. It would be hardly justifiable to assume blabbe to be a 14th cent. abbreviation of blabberer . For forms akin to blabber in other languages see that word. With blabbe we have to compare a noun labbe ‘revealer of secrets, blabber,’ in Chaucer, and a verb labbe of same age in P. Ploughman, with participle labbyng ‘blabbing, open-mouthed,’ also in Chaucer, identical with Old Dutch labben to chatter ‘garrire’ (Stratm.). Blabbe might be a mixed form due to association of labbe and blabber ; but may also be purely onomatopoeic. Compare babble n.

1. An open-mouthed person, one who has not sufficient control over his tongue; a revealer of secrets or of what ought to be kept private; a babbler, tattler, or tell-tale; used also of the tongue. (Exceedingly common in 16th and 17th centuries; unusual in literature since c1750.)

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer

rounderOE

blabc1374

tale-teller1377

clatterer1388

tittlerc1400

talebearer1478

whisterer1519

whisperer1547

telltale1548

tattler1549

clatterfart1552

tale-carrier1552

babbler?1555

gossip1566

gossiper1568

carry-tale1577

mumble-news1598

twitter1598

buzzer1604

blob-talea1670

gadabout1757

tell-pie1771

circulator1792

clype1825

windjammer1880

tattle-tale1889

panta1908

clatfarta1930

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 251 Proverbis canst thi self ynow, and wost Ayenst that vice for to bene a blabbe.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 37 Blabbe, labbe, wreyare of cownselle, futilis, anubicus.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. iv. 199/2 Thou shalt be noo tale teller ne blabbe to defame man or woman falsely.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xvi. D He y^t is a blabbe of his tonge, maketh deuysion amonge prynces.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 73 Fame, the blab vnciuil.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1582/2 Now I will plaie the blab.

1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. S3^v This tongue was never knowne to be a blab.

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxvi. §644 A long-tongued blab, uttering the secrets committed to him.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 495 To be excluded All friendship, and avoided as a blab .

1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester I. 290 Miss Lawrence is a blab.

1869 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk 42 Some men are quite as bad blabs as the women.

2. Loose talk or chatter; babbling; divulging of secrets.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter

chirma800

clappingc1386

glavera1400

clapa1420

clackc1440

blabc1460

clattera1500

babble?a1525

babblery1532

pratery1533

clitter-clatter1535

by-talk?1551

prattle1555

prittle-prattle1556

twittle-twattle1565

cacquet1567

prate?1574

prattlement1579

babblement1595

gibble-gabble1600

gabble1602

twattlea1639

tolutiloquence1656

pratement1657

gaggle1668

leden1674

cackle1676

twit-twat1677

clash1685

chit-chat1710

chatter-chitter1711

chitter-chatter1712

palavering1732

hubble-bubble1735

palaver1748

rattle1748

gum1751

mag1778

gabber1780

gammon1781

gash1787

chattery1789

gabber1792

whitter-whatter1805

yabble1808

clacket1812

talky-talky1812

potter1818

yatter1827

blue streak1830

gabblement1831

psilologya1834

chin-music1834

patter1841

jaw1842

chatter1851

brabble1861

tongue-work1866

yacker1882

talkee1885

chelp1891

chattermag1895

whitter1897

burble1898

yap1907

clatfart1913

jive1928

logorrhœa1935

waffle1937

yackety-yacking1953

yack1958

yackety-yack1958

motormouth1976

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3022 Leve thy blab, lewd fole!

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxvi^v Yf he had taried still y^e duke had not made so many blabbes of his counsaill.

a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 127 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Thus the blabbe of his tongue, turned to his confusion.

1679 Observ. Last Dutch Wars 8 You with your blustring blabs.

1863 W. Whitman Elem. Drifts 2 All that blab whose echoes recoil on me.

†3. ? as adj. Incontinent of speech. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]

wordyeOE

talewisec1200

i-worded?c1225

babblinga1250

cacklinga1250

chatteringa1250

speakfula1250

word-wooda1250

of many wordsc1350

janglingc1374

tatteringc1380

tongueya1382

ganglinga1398

readya1400

jargaunt1412

talkative1432

open-moutheda1470

clattering1477

trattling?a1513

windy1513

popping1528

smatteringa1529

rattle?1529

communicablea1533

blab1552

gaggling1553

long-tongued?1553

prittle-prattle1556

pattering1558

talking1560

bobling1566

gabbling1566

verbal1572

piet1573

twattling1573

flibber gibber1575

babblative1576

tickle-tongued1577

tattling1581

buzzing1587

long-winded1589

multiloquous1591

discoursive1599

rattling1600

glib1602

flippant1605

talkful1605

nimble-tongued1608

tongue-ripe1610

fliperous1611

garrulous?1611

futile1612

overspeaking1612

feather-tongueda1618

tongue-free1617

long-breatheda1628

well-breathed1635

multiloquious1640

untongue-tied1640

unretentive1650

communicative1651

linguacious1651

glibbed1654

largiloquent1656

multiloquent1656

parlagea1657

loose-clacked1661

nimble-chop1662

twit-twat1665

over-talkativea1667

loquacious1667

loudmouth1668

conversable1673

gash1681

narrative1681

chappy1693

apposite1701

conversative1703

gabbit1710

lubricous1715

gabby?1719

ventose1721

taleful1726

chatty?1741

blethering1759

renable1781

fetch-fire1784

conversational1799

conversant1803

gashing1808

long-lunged1815

talky1815

multi-loquacious1819

prolegomenous1822

talky-talky1831

nimble-mouthed1836

slipper1842

speechful1842

gassy1843

in great force1849

yattering1859

babbly1860

irreticent1864

chattable1867

lubrical1867

chattery1869

loose-mouthed1872

chinny1883

tongue-wagging1885

yappy1909

big-mouthed1914

loose-lipped1919

ear-bashing1945

ear-bending1946

yackety-yacking1953

nattering1959

yacking1959

woofy1960

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blabbe, linguax.

1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 19 Fame is blab.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 407 Phrenzie, that makes the vaunter insolent; The talke-full, blab.

4. For combinations see blab v.¹ Compounds.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† blabn.²

Etymology: A variant of bleb n., blob n.¹

Obsolete exc. dialect.

A bubble; a blister, a swelling.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s)

scuma1250

boilounc1320

bubblea1350

burblec1350

blubberc1440

bell1483

blobc1540

bull1561

bleb1647

blab1656

air bubble1756

air-bell1806

gas bubble1809

sprot1846

mousse1863

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > blister

bladderc1000

blistera1400

blurec1440

blurrea1529

water wheal1530

vesication1543

phlycten1585

psydracium1585

water bladder1587

bleb1607

phlyzacium1693

bullule1707

vesicle1799

pompholyx1808

water blister1821

blab1861

bulla1877

papulovesicle1877

vesicula1877

dermoid1897

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > nettle-rash or urticaria

essera1706

nettle-rash1740

urticaria1771

nettle fever1781

blab1861

Quincke's disease1894

1656 J. Trapp Comm. Acts viii. 9 Such a blab the devil had blown up there, as a small wind may blow up a bubble.

1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) v. 115 I've had..the blabs [note Nettle-rash].

Derivatives

blab-lipped adj. = blabber-lipped adj. at blabber adj. Derivatives.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > types of

babber-lippedc1400

blab-lippedc1430

blabber-lipped1483

thick-lippeda1529

blobber-lipped1593

blub1603

red-lipped1605

rose-lippeda1616

blubbered1634

sweet-lippeda1644

labrous1656

blobber1670

blubber1677

blubber-lipped1690

red-mouthed1838

blubberous1863

semihiant1873

slobber1895

labrose1905

c1430 Chester Pl. (1818) 41 If any blabb-lipped boyes be in my way They shall rue it by mighty Mahowne.

1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xliii. cxxviii. 368 Blab-lipt, beetle browd, and bottle nozed.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

blabv.¹

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s blabb(e, (1500s blobbe).

Etymology: Apparently < blabbe, blab n.¹; probably under the influence of blabber v.

To talk or utter as a blab.

†1. transitive. To utter with open mouth; usually with out. Also absol. To talk much or ineptly; to chatter, babble, ‘blether.’ Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly

clatterc1325

to say outc1384

parbreak1402

blunder1483

blab1535

overshoot1549

spita1616

spawn1631

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter

chavel?c1225

babblea1250

chattera1250

clacka1250

janglea1300

ganglec1300

clapc1315

mumblec1350

blabberc1375

carp1377

tatterc1380

garre1382

rattlec1400

clatter1401

chimec1405

gabc1405

pattera1450

smattera1450

languetc1450

pratec1460

chat1483

jabber1499

clittera1529

cackle1530

prattle1532

blatter1533

blab1535

to run on pattens1546

tattle1547

prittle-prattlea1555

trattlea1555

tittle-tattle1556

quiddlea1566

brabble1570

clicket1570

twattle1573

gabble1574

prittle1583

to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597

to word it1612

deblaterate1623

tongue1624

twitter1630

snatter1647

oversay1656

whiffle1706

to gallop away1711

splutter1728

gob1770

gibble-gabble1775

palaver1781

to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785

gammon1789

witter1808

yabble1808

yaff1808

mag1810

chelp1820

tongue-pad1825

yatter1825

potter1826

chipper1829

jaw-jaw1831

buzz1832

to shoot off one's mouth1864

yawp1872

blate1878

chin1884

yap1888

spiel1894

to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895

to run off at the mouth1908

chattermag1909

clatfart1913

to talk a streak1915

to run one's mouth1916

natter1942

ear-bash1944

rabbit1950

yack1950

yacker1961

to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965

yacket1969

to twat on1996

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xv. A A foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse [1568 Bishops', bableth: 1611 poureth out, marg. Heb. belcheth or bubbleth].

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ai/1 Blab, garrire, multiloqui.

a. transitive. To open one's mouth about (a thing better kept in); to tell, or reveal indiscreetly.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets

discovera1375

labc1400

bewray1578

blab1582

discabinet1605

eviscerate1607

eliminate1608

to give upa1640

vent1678

betray1734

confide1735

leak1859

to shell out1862

clatfart1913

spill1917

unzip1939

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 26 I do hold yt lawful..to blab theyre secrecye priuat.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B iiij b Ile blabb all, and not sticke to tell.

1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. B4 Must I recount my shame, Blab my misdeedes?

1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 101 To blab or blaze a dead mans follies.

1620 Swetnam Arraign'd (1880) 28 What will not women blab to those they love.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xvi. 38 It will be said I blab every thing.

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches xiv. 459 One of the Boors..afterwards blabbed the real facts of the transaction.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 179 This pushing talkative divine, who was always blabbing secrets.

b. Often with out (forth, abroad).

ΚΠ

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xiii. 44 He blabbeth it not abrode to others.

1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 822 He blabbed not out all the conspiracy.

1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 41 He had blabbed forth somewhat to the preiudice of the King.

1743 R. Blair Grave 24 Oh! that some courteous Ghost would blab it out!

1869 W. H. Dixon Tower (1870) II. xiv. 141 He blabbed out the secret to his priest.

3. intransitive. To talk indiscreetly about what should be kept secret, to reveal or betray secrets.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > disclose or reveal secrets

tell1537

blaba1616

to let the cat out of the bag1760

to blow the gab or gaff1834

to shoot off one's mouth1864

to give the show away1879

unload1904

to spill the beans1919

to shoot the works1922

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. ii. 59 When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.

1733 J. Swift On Poetry 10 If you blab, you are undone.

1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband iii. ii Mum's the Word, I never blab.

1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. i. 26 His Brother..had blabbed upon the Prince.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 202 We certainly should not have guessed it, if he had not blabbed.

4. transitive (transferred). To reveal otherwise than by talking; to betray, bewray.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets > prejudicially

wraya1300

bewrayc1386

descrya1400

blab1594

betray1598

sell1831

peach1852

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 154 Suffolkes hatefull tongue blabs his harts malice.

1647 J. Hall Poems i. 14 His age is blab'd by silver haires.

1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 103 Least his watry eyes should blab abroad the secret conjunction of his affections.

Compounds

blab-mouth, blab-tongue; so blab-mouthed adj.; blab-off n. attributive (see quot. 1953).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > secrets

labbing1402

unsecreta1586

blabbish1604

blabbinga1616

leaky1692

loose-tongued1883

blab-mouthed1913

tell-all1930

society > communication > broadcasting > television > sound produced by television set > [verb (transitive)] > switch to turn off

blab-off1953

1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. B4^v O blab-tongue Tantalus, why dost not eate?

1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 34 Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times.

1865 Washington Star 29 Apr. Such a shallow-pated blab-mouth.

1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers i. 16 He was blab-mouthed, a tongue-wagger.

1953 Daily Mail 20 Nov. 7/2 A member suggested that the Chamber of the House [of Commons] should be fitted with ‘blab-off switches’... These ‘popular devices enabled American viewers [of television] to switch off advertisers’ announcements'.

1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning vi. 82 She was known as a blab-mouth in all the pubs.

1962 Punch 5 Dec. 834/2 Others..ignore the commercial interference..without benefit of blab-off devices.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† blabv.²

Etymology: < blab n.²; compare bleb n., blob n.¹

Obsolete.

transitive. To swell, make swollen (the cheeks).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [verb (transitive)] > types of cheek

blub1559

blab1719

chuff1821

1719 A. Ramsay Content 8 A Dutchess..Blabs her fair Cheeks till she is almost blind. Poor Phili's Death the briny Pearls demands.

Derivatives

blabbed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek

blabbed1601

flapped1661

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 427 Some of them looke pale, with a paire of flaggie blabd-cheekes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

n.¹c1374

n.²c1430

v.¹1535

v.²1601

单词	blab
释义	blabn.¹ Brit. /blab/, U.S. /blæb/ Forms: Middle English–1600s blabbe, 1500s– blab. Etymology: The history of blab and blabber, and the question of their mutual relations, if any, is very obscure. Blabbe noun ‘chatterer’ occurs in Chaucer c1374, and is very common thenceforth; blab noun ‘chatter, loose talk’ is in Tale of Beryn (c1400), but has not been found elsewhere before the 16th cent., when appears also blab verb ‘to chatter’ (1535), followed in course by its agent noun blabber . But the verb blabber is earlier than any of these; it occurs in Piers Ploughman (1362), and is (with its derivative blabberer ) very common in Wyclif; the facts thus forbid us to take blabber as a frequentative derivative of blab verb; while no analogy exists for the formation of either (of the only two early words) blabbe noun, blabber verb, from the other. It would be hardly justifiable to assume blabbe to be a 14th cent. abbreviation of blabberer . For forms akin to blabber in other languages see that word. With blabbe we have to compare a noun labbe ‘revealer of secrets, blabber,’ in Chaucer, and a verb labbe of same age in P. Ploughman, with participle labbyng ‘blabbing, open-mouthed,’ also in Chaucer, identical with Old Dutch labben to chatter ‘garrire’ (Stratm.). Blabbe might be a mixed form due to association of labbe and blabber ; but may also be purely onomatopoeic. Compare babble n. 1. An open-mouthed person, one who has not sufficient control over his tongue; a revealer of secrets or of what ought to be kept private; a babbler, tattler, or tell-tale; used also of the tongue. (Exceedingly common in 16th and 17th centuries; unusual in literature since c1750.) ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer rounderOE blabc1374 tale-teller1377 clatterer1388 tittlerc1400 talebearer1478 whisterer1519 whisperer1547 telltale1548 tattler1549 clatterfart1552 tale-carrier1552 babbler?1555 gossip1566 gossiper1568 carry-tale1577 mumble-news1598 twitter1598 buzzer1604 blob-talea1670 gadabout1757 tell-pie1771 circulator1792 clype1825 windjammer1880 tattle-tale1889 panta1908 clatfarta1930 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 251 Proverbis canst thi self ynow, and wost Ayenst that vice for to bene a blabbe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 37 Blabbe, labbe, wreyare of cownselle, futilis, anubicus. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) v. iv. 199/2 Thou shalt be noo tale teller ne blabbe to defame man or woman falsely. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xvi. D He y^t is a blabbe of his tonge, maketh deuysion amonge prynces. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iv. 73 Fame, the blab vnciuil. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1582/2 Now I will plaie the blab. 1599 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. King Edward IV sig. S3^v This tongue was never knowne to be a blab. 1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxvi. §644 A long-tongued blab, uttering the secrets committed to him. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 495 To be excluded All friendship, and avoided as a blab . View more context for this quotation 1853 E. S. Sheppard Charles Auchester I. 290 Miss Lawrence is a blab. 1869 C. H. Spurgeon John Ploughman's Talk 42 Some men are quite as bad blabs as the women. 2. Loose talk or chatter; babbling; divulging of secrets. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > chatter chirma800 clappingc1386 glavera1400 clapa1420 clackc1440 blabc1460 clattera1500 babble?a1525 babblery1532 pratery1533 clitter-clatter1535 by-talk?1551 prattle1555 prittle-prattle1556 twittle-twattle1565 cacquet1567 prate?1574 prattlement1579 babblement1595 gibble-gabble1600 gabble1602 twattlea1639 tolutiloquence1656 pratement1657 gaggle1668 leden1674 cackle1676 twit-twat1677 clash1685 chit-chat1710 chatter-chitter1711 chitter-chatter1712 palavering1732 hubble-bubble1735 palaver1748 rattle1748 gum1751 mag1778 gabber1780 gammon1781 gash1787 chattery1789 gabber1792 whitter-whatter1805 yabble1808 clacket1812 talky-talky1812 potter1818 yatter1827 blue streak1830 gabblement1831 psilologya1834 chin-music1834 patter1841 jaw1842 chatter1851 brabble1861 tongue-work1866 yacker1882 talkee1885 chelp1891 chattermag1895 whitter1897 burble1898 yap1907 clatfart1913 jive1928 logorrhœa1935 waffle1937 yackety-yacking1953 yack1958 yackety-yack1958 motormouth1976 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3022 Leve thy blab, lewd fole! 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxxvi^v Yf he had taried still y^e duke had not made so many blabbes of his counsaill. a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 127 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Thus the blabbe of his tongue, turned to his confusion. 1679 Observ. Last Dutch Wars 8 You with your blustring blabs. 1863 W. Whitman Elem. Drifts 2 All that blab whose echoes recoil on me. †3. ? as adj. Incontinent of speech. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blabbe, linguax. 1590 R. Greene Mourning Garment 19 Fame is blab. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 407 Phrenzie, that makes the vaunter insolent; The talke-full, blab. 4. For combinations see blab v.¹ Compounds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † blabn.² Etymology: A variant of bleb n., blob n.¹ Obsolete exc. dialect. A bubble; a blister, a swelling. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > [noun] > a) bubble(s) scuma1250 boilounc1320 bubblea1350 burblec1350 blubberc1440 bell1483 blobc1540 bull1561 bleb1647 blab1656 air bubble1756 air-bell1806 gas bubble1809 sprot1846 mousse1863 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > eruption > [noun] > spot of > blister bladderc1000 blistera1400 blurec1440 blurrea1529 water wheal1530 vesication1543 phlycten1585 psydracium1585 water bladder1587 bleb1607 phlyzacium1693 bullule1707 vesicle1799 pompholyx1808 water blister1821 blab1861 bulla1877 papulovesicle1877 vesicula1877 dermoid1897 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > nettle-rash or urticaria essera1706 nettle-rash1740 urticaria1771 nettle fever1781 blab1861 Quincke's disease1894 1656 J. Trapp Comm. Acts viii. 9 Such a blab the devil had blown up there, as a small wind may blow up a bubble. 1861 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life (ed. 18) v. 115 I've had..the blabs [note Nettle-rash]. Derivatives blab-lipped adj. = blabber-lipped adj. at blabber adj. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > mouth > [adjective] > lip or lips > types of babber-lippedc1400 blab-lippedc1430 blabber-lipped1483 thick-lippeda1529 blobber-lipped1593 blub1603 red-lipped1605 rose-lippeda1616 blubbered1634 sweet-lippeda1644 labrous1656 blobber1670 blubber1677 blubber-lipped1690 red-mouthed1838 blubberous1863 semihiant1873 slobber1895 labrose1905 c1430 Chester Pl. (1818) 41 If any blabb-lipped boyes be in my way They shall rue it by mighty Mahowne. 1607 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso (new ed.) xliii. cxxviii. 368 Blab-lipt, beetle browd, and bottle nozed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). blabv.¹ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s blabb(e, (1500s blobbe). Etymology: Apparently < blabbe, blab n.¹; probably under the influence of blabber v. To talk or utter as a blab. †1. transitive. To utter with open mouth; usually with out. Also absol. To talk much or ineptly; to chatter, babble, ‘blether.’ Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)] > without restraint, openly, or recklessly clatterc1325 to say outc1384 parbreak1402 blunder1483 blab1535 overshoot1549 spita1616 spawn1631 the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter chavel?c1225 babblea1250 chattera1250 clacka1250 janglea1300 ganglec1300 clapc1315 mumblec1350 blabberc1375 carp1377 tatterc1380 garre1382 rattlec1400 clatter1401 chimec1405 gabc1405 pattera1450 smattera1450 languetc1450 pratec1460 chat1483 jabber1499 clittera1529 cackle1530 prattle1532 blatter1533 blab1535 to run on pattens1546 tattle1547 prittle-prattlea1555 trattlea1555 tittle-tattle1556 quiddlea1566 brabble1570 clicket1570 twattle1573 gabble1574 prittle1583 to like to hear oneself speak, talk1597 to word it1612 deblaterate1623 tongue1624 twitter1630 snatter1647 oversay1656 whiffle1706 to gallop away1711 splutter1728 gob1770 gibble-gabble1775 palaver1781 to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785 gammon1789 witter1808 yabble1808 yaff1808 mag1810 chelp1820 tongue-pad1825 yatter1825 potter1826 chipper1829 jaw-jaw1831 buzz1832 to shoot off one's mouth1864 yawp1872 blate1878 chin1884 yap1888 spiel1894 to talk (also lie, swear, etc.) a blue streak1895 to run off at the mouth1908 chattermag1909 clatfart1913 to talk a streak1915 to run one's mouth1916 natter1942 ear-bash1944 rabbit1950 yack1950 yacker1961 to eat parrot head (also bottom)1965 yacket1969 to twat on1996 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xv. A A foolish mouth blabbeth out nothinge but foolishnesse [1568 Bishops', bableth: 1611 poureth out, marg. Heb. belcheth or bubbleth]. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ai/1 Blab, garrire, multiloqui. 2. a. transitive. To open one's mouth about (a thing better kept in); to tell, or reveal indiscreetly. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets discovera1375 labc1400 bewray1578 blab1582 discabinet1605 eviscerate1607 eliminate1608 to give upa1640 vent1678 betray1734 confide1735 leak1859 to shell out1862 clatfart1913 spill1917 unzip1939 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 26 I do hold yt lawful..to blab theyre secrecye priuat. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet B iiij b Ile blabb all, and not sticke to tell. 1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. B4 Must I recount my shame, Blab my misdeedes? 1612 R. Carpenter Soules Sentinel 101 To blab or blaze a dead mans follies. 1620 Swetnam Arraign'd (1880) 28 What will not women blab to those they love. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xvi. 38 It will be said I blab every thing. 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches xiv. 459 One of the Boors..afterwards blabbed the real facts of the transaction. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 179 This pushing talkative divine, who was always blabbing secrets. b. Often with out (forth, abroad). ΚΠ 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xiii. 44 He blabbeth it not abrode to others. 1580 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 822 He blabbed not out all the conspiracy. 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth iii. 41 He had blabbed forth somewhat to the preiudice of the King. 1743 R. Blair Grave 24 Oh! that some courteous Ghost would blab it out! 1869 W. H. Dixon Tower (1870) II. xiv. 141 He blabbed out the secret to his priest. 3. intransitive. To talk indiscreetly about what should be kept secret, to reveal or betray secrets. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > disclose or reveal secrets tell1537 blaba1616 to let the cat out of the bag1760 to blow the gab or gaff1834 to shoot off one's mouth1864 to give the show away1879 unload1904 to spill the beans1919 to shoot the works1922 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. ii. 59 When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. View more context for this quotation 1733 J. Swift On Poetry 10 If you blab, you are undone. 1747 B. Hoadly Suspicious Husband iii. ii Mum's the Word, I never blab. 1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xi. i. 26 His Brother..had blabbed upon the Prince. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 202 We certainly should not have guessed it, if he had not blabbed. 4. transitive (transferred). To reveal otherwise than by talking; to betray, bewray. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or reveal [verb (transitive)] > secrets > prejudicially wraya1300 bewrayc1386 descrya1400 blab1594 betray1598 sell1831 peach1852 1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. i. 154 Suffolkes hatefull tongue blabs his harts malice. 1647 J. Hall Poems i. 14 His age is blab'd by silver haires. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. 103 Least his watry eyes should blab abroad the secret conjunction of his affections. Compounds blab-mouth, blab-tongue; so blab-mouthed adj.; blab-off n. attributive (see quot. 1953). ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [adjective] > secrets labbing1402 unsecreta1586 blabbish1604 blabbinga1616 leaky1692 loose-tongued1883 blab-mouthed1913 tell-all1930 society > communication > broadcasting > television > sound produced by television set > [verb (transitive)] > switch to turn off blab-off1953 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. B4^v O blab-tongue Tantalus, why dost not eate? 1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 34 Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times. 1865 Washington Star 29 Apr. Such a shallow-pated blab-mouth. 1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers i. 16 He was blab-mouthed, a tongue-wagger. 1953 Daily Mail 20 Nov. 7/2 A member suggested that the Chamber of the House [of Commons] should be fitted with ‘blab-off switches’... These ‘popular devices enabled American viewers [of television] to switch off advertisers’ announcements'. 1958 A. Sillitoe Saturday Night & Sunday Morning vi. 82 She was known as a blab-mouth in all the pubs. 1962 Punch 5 Dec. 834/2 Others..ignore the commercial interference..without benefit of blab-off devices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † blabv.² Etymology: < blab n.²; compare bleb n., blob n.¹ Obsolete. transitive. To swell, make swollen (the cheeks). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [verb (transitive)] > types of cheek blub1559 blab1719 chuff1821 1719 A. Ramsay Content 8 A Dutchess..Blabs her fair Cheeks till she is almost blind. Poor Phili's Death the briny Pearls demands. Derivatives blabbed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > cheek > [adjective] > types of cheek blabbed1601 flapped1661 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 427 Some of them looke pale, with a paire of flaggie blabd-cheekes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c1374n.²c1430v.¹1535v.²1601
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