blabbern.

Brit.

/ˈblabə/, U.S.

/ˈblæbər/

Etymology: < blab v.¹ + -er suffix¹.

One who blabs; one who reveals secrets, a tell-tale.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > one who or that which discloses or reveals > secrets

labc1405

blabber1557

telltale1595

divulger1606

sievea1616

confider1648

betrayer1738

blabbermouth1936

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1582) 94 a He was..a great blabber of his tongue.

a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) v. iii. 113 Peace ffellowe godffrey. I'l nw ply the blabber.

1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 491 The indiscretion of this blabber.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 5 Time, that blabber of more fatal secrets.

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

† blabberadj.

Forms: Also Middle English blabyr, 1500s–1600s blaber.

Etymology: First in combination blabyr-lyppyd , in the Catholicon 1483, the Prompt. c1440 having the earlier babbyr-lyppyd , used also by Langland 1377 (see babber-lipped adj.). But there was also a 15–17th cent. form blab-lipped (see blab n.²), which is of more simple explanation: compare blob n.¹, blobber adj., blubber adj., bubble n. and adj., all expressing the sense of swelling or inflation.

Swollen, protruding; said of the lips, and sometimes the cheeks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [adjective] > of face: swollen > affecting lips

blabber1552

laver1598

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blabber lyppes, dimissa labra.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 530 The divels of Crowland, with their blabber lips [L. labiis pendentibus].

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iv. sig. H2 Shee has full blabber Cheekes.

1687 T. Shadwell tr. Juvenal Tenth Satyr 108 What ugly blabber-lipps had he!

1833 Coleridge in Fraser's Mag. VII. 177 A waxy face and a blabber lip. [In Poems III. 87 (1834) ‘blubber lip.’]

Derivatives

blabber-lipped adj.

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

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 190 He was bitelbrowed · and baberlipped also.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 20 Babbyrlyppyd, labrosus.]

1483 Cath. Angl. 33 Blabyrlyppyd, broccus, labrosus.

c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 927 Ye..blabyr-lyppyd bycchys.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii Others againe who are blabber-lipped are named in Latine Labiones.

1607 Lingua iii. vi, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 404 An old..babber-lipped..slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate.]

1650 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Descr. Grand Signor's Seraglio viii. 109 The most..blabber lipped, and flat nosed girles, that may be had through-out all Egypt.

1704 London Gaz. No. 4034/4 Run away..a short Negro Man..blabber Lip'd..long Heel'd.

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

† blabberv.

Forms: Middle English blaberen, blaiberen, Middle English blaberyn, blaveryn, blabir, blabyr, Middle English–1500s blaber, 1500s blabbar, 1600s blabbor, 1500s–1600s blabber.

Etymology: Middle English blaberen , late 14th cent. Words of similar form appear in other Germanic languages: compare Old Norse blabbra (cited by Rietz), Danish blabbre to babble, gabble, Swedish dialect blaffra to prattle, German blappern (Grimm), plappern to blab, babble, prate. But the evidence is not sufficient to show whether any of these were actually connected with the English word, or whether they agree only in being natural expressions of the action involved, which seems to be essentially that of producing a confused repetition or combination of labial (b ) and lingual (l , r ) sounds. It is noteworthy that in the earliest instance quoted, blaberde varies in the manuscripts with babeled , bablide , etc.: compare babble v.¹ See further under blab n.¹

Obsolete.

a. intransitive. To make sounds with the lips and tongue as an infant (cf. sense 3); to speak inarticulately or indistinctly; to babble, to mumble.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > mutter or mumble

mamblea1275

mumblec1350

blabber1362

babblea1400

muttera1425

pattera1425

rumble1440

barbettec1480

murmell1546

palter?1548

buzz1555

fumble1563

drumble1579

to sup up1579

radote?1590

chunter1599

putter1611

mussitate1623

muss1661

muffle1669

slobber1692

thruma1774

fumfer1954

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 8 So I blaberde [v.r. blaberid, babelide, -ed, bablide] on my Beodes.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Esdras Prol. The tunge kut of it shal blaberen.

1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 And blaberis that noyis mennis eris to here.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 456 My sonne dothe but blabber yet, he can nat speke his wordes playne.

a1800 Ballad ‘Ld. Ingram’ xxi, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 131/2 A' was for the bonnie babe That lay blabbering in her bleed.

b. transitive.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > mutter or mumble

muttera1425

mumblec1450

murmurc1460

blabber?a1513

palter?1548

fumble1555

flummer1563

chaw1570

buzz1583

mumpa1586

demurmurate1641

loll1655

muttera1690

swallowa1791

sough1821

hummera1860

lip1887

mum-mumble1917

potato-mouth1937

rhubarb1958

a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Fairar Inglis..Than thow can blabbar with thy Carrik lippis.

a. intransitive. To chatter, babble, talk idly or senselessly.

ΘΚΠ

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

c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 376 Þei blaiberen þus for defaute of witt.

a1400 Cov. Myst. 164 Boys now blaberyn.

c1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 53 Þat oþer cristen peple presume not to blaber aȝenst oure goddes.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 37 Blaberyn, or speke wythe-owte resone, blatero.

1483 Cath. Angl. 33 To Blabyr, blaterare.

b. transitive; also with out, forth. Cf. blab v.¹, blurt v. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)]

cacklec1230

chattera1250

clapc1315

jangle1377

blabberc1380

trattlea1425

pratea1475

chat1483

prattlea1500

prittle-prattlea1555

gabble1566

blatter?1567

gaggle1577

clacket1579

knap1581

prittle1583

clack1590

volley1591

tattle1593

prabble1603

out-babble1649

garrulate1656

gabber?1661

chime1697

spiel1904

chitter-chatter1928

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 168 Prestis..blabren out matynys and masse..wiþ-outen deuocion and contemplacion.

c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 73 Þei prechen not cristis gospel..but blaberen forþe anticristis bullis.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm4 Did blabber out what hee had founde.

1624 A. H. in J. Davies' Wks. (1878) II. 81 And blabber forth His Funerall, in Rimes.

†3. To move the tongue between the lips in mockery. Obsolete. Cf. blear v.²

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture

bleara1340

blabber1530

to shoot out1535

pot1549

sleak1674

to make a long nose1828

to thumb one's nose1854

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 456 I blaber, I put forthe the lyppe, as one dothe his tonge in his heed..his tonge blabred in his heed, Je baboye.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Baboyer, to blabber with the lips: to famble, to falter.

1629 Schoole Gd. Manners (Halliw.) To mocke anybody by blabboring out the tongue is the part of..lewd boyes.

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

n.1557

adj.1483

v.1362

单词	blabber
释义	blabbern. Brit. /ˈblabə/, U.S. /ˈblæbər/ Etymology: < blab v.¹ + -er suffix¹. One who blabs; one who reveals secrets, a tell-tale. ΘΚΠ society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > [noun] > one who or that which discloses or reveals > secrets labc1405 blabber1557 telltale1595 divulger1606 sievea1616 confider1648 betrayer1738 blabbermouth1936 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1582) 94 a He was..a great blabber of his tongue. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) v. iii. 113 Peace ffellowe godffrey. I'l nw ply the blabber. 1793 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 491 The indiscretion of this blabber. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 5 Time, that blabber of more fatal secrets. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † blabberadj. Forms: Also Middle English blabyr, 1500s–1600s blaber. Etymology: First in combination blabyr-lyppyd , in the Catholicon 1483, the Prompt. c1440 having the earlier babbyr-lyppyd , used also by Langland 1377 (see babber-lipped adj.). But there was also a 15–17th cent. form blab-lipped (see blab n.²), which is of more simple explanation: compare blob n.¹, blobber adj., blubber adj., bubble n. and adj., all expressing the sense of swelling or inflation. Swollen, protruding; said of the lips, and sometimes the cheeks. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > [adjective] > of face: swollen > affecting lips blabber1552 laver1598 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blabber lyppes, dimissa labra. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 530 The divels of Crowland, with their blabber lips [L. labiis pendentibus]. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Spanish Gipsie (1653) iv. sig. H2 Shee has full blabber Cheekes. 1687 T. Shadwell tr. Juvenal Tenth Satyr 108 What ugly blabber-lipps had he! 1833 Coleridge in Fraser's Mag. VII. 177 A waxy face and a blabber lip. [In Poems III. 87 (1834) ‘blubber lip.’] Derivatives blabber-lipped adj. 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 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 190 He was bitelbrowed · and baberlipped also. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 20 Babbyrlyppyd, labrosus.] 1483 Cath. Angl. 33 Blabyrlyppyd, broccus, labrosus. c1485 Digby Myst. iii. 927 Ye..blabyr-lyppyd bycchys. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xi. xxxvii Others againe who are blabber-lipped are named in Latine Labiones. 1607 Lingua iii. vi, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 404 An old..babber-lipped..slave that, looking himself by chance in a glass, died for pure hate.] 1650 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Descr. Grand Signor's Seraglio viii. 109 The most..blabber lipped, and flat nosed girles, that may be had through-out all Egypt. 1704 London Gaz. No. 4034/4 Run away..a short Negro Man..blabber Lip'd..long Heel'd. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † blabberv. Forms: Middle English blaberen, blaiberen, Middle English blaberyn, blaveryn, blabir, blabyr, Middle English–1500s blaber, 1500s blabbar, 1600s blabbor, 1500s–1600s blabber. Etymology: Middle English blaberen , late 14th cent. Words of similar form appear in other Germanic languages: compare Old Norse blabbra (cited by Rietz), Danish blabbre to babble, gabble, Swedish dialect blaffra to prattle, German blappern (Grimm), plappern to blab, babble, prate. But the evidence is not sufficient to show whether any of these were actually connected with the English word, or whether they agree only in being natural expressions of the action involved, which seems to be essentially that of producing a confused repetition or combination of labial (b ) and lingual (l , r ) sounds. It is noteworthy that in the earliest instance quoted, blaberde varies in the manuscripts with babeled , bablide , etc.: compare babble v.¹ See further under blab n.¹ Obsolete. 1. a. intransitive. To make sounds with the lips and tongue as an infant (cf. sense 3); to speak inarticulately or indistinctly; to babble, to mumble. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > mutter or mumble mamblea1275 mumblec1350 blabber1362 babblea1400 muttera1425 pattera1425 rumble1440 barbettec1480 murmell1546 palter?1548 buzz1555 fumble1563 drumble1579 to sup up1579 radote?1590 chunter1599 putter1611 mussitate1623 muss1661 muffle1669 slobber1692 thruma1774 fumfer1954 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 8 So I blaberde [v.r. blaberid, babelide, -ed, bablide] on my Beodes. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Esdras Prol. The tunge kut of it shal blaberen. 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 And blaberis that noyis mennis eris to here. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 456 My sonne dothe but blabber yet, he can nat speke his wordes playne. a1800 Ballad ‘Ld. Ingram’ xxi, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1885) II. iii. 131/2 A' was for the bonnie babe That lay blabbering in her bleed. b. transitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > mutter or mumble muttera1425 mumblec1450 murmurc1460 blabber?a1513 palter?1548 fumble1555 flummer1563 chaw1570 buzz1583 mumpa1586 demurmurate1641 loll1655 muttera1690 swallowa1791 sough1821 hummera1860 lip1887 mum-mumble1917 potato-mouth1937 rhubarb1958 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 204 Fairar Inglis..Than thow can blabbar with thy Carrik lippis. 2. a. intransitive. To chatter, babble, talk idly or senselessly. ΘΚΠ 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 c1375 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 376 Þei blaiberen þus for defaute of witt. a1400 Cov. Myst. 164 Boys now blaberyn. c1430 Life St. Kath. (1884) 53 Þat oþer cristen peple presume not to blaber aȝenst oure goddes. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 37 Blaberyn, or speke wythe-owte resone, blatero. 1483 Cath. Angl. 33 To Blabyr, blaterare. b. transitive; also with out, forth. Cf. blab v.¹, blurt v. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] cacklec1230 chattera1250 clapc1315 jangle1377 blabberc1380 trattlea1425 pratea1475 chat1483 prattlea1500 prittle-prattlea1555 gabble1566 blatter?1567 gaggle1577 clacket1579 knap1581 prittle1583 clack1590 volley1591 tattle1593 prabble1603 out-babble1649 garrulate1656 gabber?1661 chime1697 spiel1904 chitter-chatter1928 c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 168 Prestis..blabren out matynys and masse..wiþ-outen deuocion and contemplacion. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 73 Þei prechen not cristis gospel..but blaberen forþe anticristis bullis. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iv. sig. Mm4 Did blabber out what hee had founde. 1624 A. H. in J. Davies' Wks. (1878) II. 81 And blabber forth His Funerall, in Rimes. †3. To move the tongue between the lips in mockery. Obsolete. Cf. blear v.² ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture bleara1340 blabber1530 to shoot out1535 pot1549 sleak1674 to make a long nose1828 to thumb one's nose1854 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 456 I blaber, I put forthe the lyppe, as one dothe his tonge in his heed..his tonge blabred in his heed, Je baboye. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Baboyer, to blabber with the lips: to famble, to falter. 1629 Schoole Gd. Manners (Halliw.) To mocke anybody by blabboring out the tongue is the part of..lewd boyes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1557adj.1483v.1362
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