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to run off
to run off
1.
a. intransitive. Of liquid, esp. excess liquid: to flow off or away.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (intransitive)] > away
to run off1607
draw1608
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 302 It is also good to be regarded, that the plankes bee so laid, as the vrine may continually run off from them.
1672 J. Hoskins Let. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1973) IX. 375 The one side of the frame..is lower than the other that the moysture that comes upon the shutters may run of to the side.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 570 Let it stand half an Hour undisturbed, that it may run off clear.
1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 512/1 The water will run off and leave the yellow matter behind.
1861 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 22 i. 66 When put to press the white whey runs off freely.
1902 Daily Chron. 27 June 2/6 Push-tap valves..do not require a key, the driver simply having to press the push and the water runs off.
1959 Hesperia 28 153 The..lip inclines outward slightly to allow overspilling liquid to run off.
2005 K. Ascher The Works: Anat. of City i. i. 12 Nearly all are graded to be slightly higher in the center, to allow water to run off into catch basins at street corners.
b. transitive. To cause or allow (liquid) to flow off or away; to draw or drain off.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (transitive)] > cause to flow (away)
trillc1485
derive1598
to run off1737
1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved x. 157 A Supply will be wanted in the Vessel, which is running off its Contents.
1771 Encycl. Brit. II. 601/2 Until the former water be run off, and the canal cleaned.
1837 Penny Cycl. IX. 25/2 They derived a profit proportionable to the quantity of spirits they could run off in a given time.
1890 Chambers's Jrnl. 30 Aug. 557/1 The clear portion..is run off into another vessel.
1914 Mariner's Mirror 4 299 Take out the..plug of the hole through which the bilgewater is run off.
1990 C. Thurlow China Clay 22 The clay slowly settled and clear water was run off through a launder on one side of the tank.
2008 Ecologist July 67/1 The wort..is run off and the grain sprayed with water.
2. intransitive.
a. To take to flight, flee; to make off hurriedly or surreptitiously (frequently with something to which one is not entitled).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > run away or flee
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afleeeOE
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to run awayOE
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to turn the ridgec1225
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to give backa1300
flemec1300
startc1330
to take (on oneself) the flighta1500
to take the back upon oneselfa1500
fly1523
to take (also betake) (oneself) to one's legs1530
to flee one's way1535
to take to one's heels1548
flought?1567
fuge1573
to turn taila1586
to run off1628
to take flighta1639
refugea1641
to run for it1642
to take leg1740
to give (also take) leg-bail1751
bail1775
sherry1788
to pull foot1792
fugitate1830
to tail off (out)1830
to take to flight1840
to break (strike, etc.) for (the) tall timber1845
guy1879
to give leg (or legs)1883
rabbit1887
to do a guy1889
high-tail1908
to have it on one's toes1958
1628 World Encompassed by Sir F. Drake 18 Our other ships..were so oppressed with the extremitie of the storme, that they were forced to run off to sea for their owne safegard.
a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Scots Affairs (1841) II. 274 The Highlanders..did runne of, all in a confusione,..till they wer gott into a mosse.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 102 He is a Fool, says the King, he does not kill the Fellow and run off.
1783 London Mag. Nov. 395/2 They pilfered whatever they could find, and ran off with the spoil.
1806 M. Lewis Jrnl. 11 Aug. in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1993) VIII. 154 It [sc. a grizzly bear] took wind of us and ran off.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 57 The servant was taught how he might, without sin, run off with his master's plate.
1861 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 495/2 Their army was beaten..by Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders, their cavalry running off in a panic.
1905 Smart Set Sept. 117/2 No one else is going to run off with your old car.
1961 R. Gover One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding 65 First he wanna wham bam my poor old worn out me t'death, then he wanna run off an leave me wiffout even payin.
2003 TV Quick 29 Nov. (Central Region ed.) 35/4 Holed up in nowheresville trying to escape her hubbie..after she's run off with the proceeds of a huge drug deal.
b. To elope with another person. Of two people: to elope together. Cf. to run away 2b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [verb (intransitive)] > elope
to run away1592
elope1628
to run off1725
1725 G. Odingsells Bath Unmask'd i. vii. 14 And then to lecturing Miss, who wants nothing but the starting Hint to run off with me.
1781 Mirror No. 81 Hardships from which, at last, she freed herself, by running off with a recruiting serjeant.
1843 Ainsworth's Mag. 5 81 If his wife were to run off with the penny-postman next St. Valentine's Day.
1856 Littell's Living Age 28 June 797/2 He came over here and fell in love with the girl, and they ran off together.
1950 M. Culver in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951 (1951) 91 Clarence Jackson once told the Lion that Bump had a sister who ran off with a white man.
1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) ii. iii. 157 Their daughter Miriam..had disgraced herself the previous year by running off with young Harry Penmar.
2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Feb. (Central ed.) a19/1 Nascar dads will abandon their families for hunky mechanics and soccer moms will run off with women's phys-ed teachers.
c. to run off with: to win (a competition, prize, etc.) easily or by a wide margin. Cf. to run away 3g at Phrasal verbs 1.
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1864 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 170/2 Another Overman has run off with the first award for ewes at Newcastle.
1957 Anniston (Alabama) Star 26 Apr. 18 a/2 LSU was first in 1956 but Florida ran off with the championship after being second in the mythical statistical tabulation.
2008 Washington Post 3 Jan. e6/2 He made a run at Woods on the Sunday of the Target event, getting within two shots of the lead entering the back nine before Woods ran off with the title.
3.
a. transitive. To write or recite rapidly or fluently; to dash or rattle off.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > say in a lively manner
rattle1402
pourc1451
to run off1680
twitter1689
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zing1975
society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [verb (transitive)] > write down hastily
slap1672
to run off1680
dash1726
jot1735
dash off, out1786
dot1797
splash1897
society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > compose hastily
scribble1576
palter1588
to throw together1646
dash1726
dash off, out1786
to run off1809
to strike off1821
to write off1841
1680 M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras'd sig. A7 Some Persons..very well knew with what Expedition it was run off, and hurried into the Press, before I had time to peruse the Copies.
1683 D. Granville Let. in Remains (1861) I. 163 [I] did..on a new text..runne of halfe a sermon at leisure hours.
1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison III. vii. 137 Finely run off, upon my word!
1789 A. Bayly Alliance Musick, Poetry & Oratory 364 In a sentence are always one or more words, that require emphasis and stay, while others are to be run off lightly and speedily.
1809 W. Scott Let. 14 Jan. (1932) II. 152 You can so easily run off an article..that it would be inexcusable not to afford us your assistance.
1863 H. S. Carpenter Transition iv. 94 The more letters you write..the easier your correspondence will grow, and the less time it will take to run off a letter.
1917 Good Housek. Apr. 28/2 Pansy led him to the blackly shining Madonna..and ran off the appropriate speech.
1970 New Yorker 6 June 124/2 The story was run off with the smoothest skill.
1998 D. J. Lieberman Never be lied to Again 58 Another tactic is running off a long list of items in the hope that one will remain unnoticed.
b. transitive. Originally: to print a copy of (a document, text, etc.); to produce or turn out (duplicated copies) by this means. Later more generally: to produce or turn out (a copy, or a specified number of copies, of something) by any mechanical means; (occasionally simply) to manufacture.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > produce or bring forth > with ease, speed, or success, or in large quantities
whip1611
to work off1653
to hit off1700
dispatchc1710
to throw off1724
to run off1759
to turn off1825
to turn out1847
to run out1872
to churn out1912
proliferate1912
slug1925
whomp1955
gurgitate1963
1759 R. Hurd Moral & Polit. Dialogues p. i I should not be displeased, if he took to himself the benefit of running off two thousand copies.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. xxxi. 521 A printer with the very same types can run ye off a bible, a Virgil, Newton's optics, Lisle's husbandry, [etc.].
1847 Boston Daily Atlas 13 May 1/8 We have now got fairly at work, running off the immense nightly edition of the Ledger, upon the newly invented Cylindrical Rotary Printing Machine.
1883 Trans. Indiana Hort. Soc. 1882 27 The type is made up into a form and three hundred copies run off for the Society.
1906 Louisiana Planter & Sugar Manufacturer 20 Oct. 248/1 Sigura factory expects to run off a fair crop of about 35,000 tons [of sugar].
1932 A. J. Worrall Eng. Idioms 78 This machine will run off eighty copies per minute.
1982 Peace News 6 Aug. 8/1 Fabric sew-on prints of the emblem were being run-off.
2008 D. Goodman Standing up to Madness 6 The students typed the leaflets, ran off copies, and secretly sent them by courier to cities around Nazi Germany.
c. intransitive. To allow of being produced quickly or easily. Obsolete. rare.
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1879 ‘A. Thomas’ London Season II. 79 [The verses] ‘go’ easily enough,..but that sort of thing runs off by the yard.
4. intransitive. To move away (from something) in reasoning, discussion, etc.; to digress; to diverge, deviate. In early use sometimes more fully †to run off from (one's) bias (with allusion to the characteristic motion of bowls; cf. bias n. 2a(a) and sense 21a). Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > be copious [verb (intransitive)] > digress
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digress1530
traverse1530
decline?1543
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deviate1638
to step aside1653
swerve1658
to sally out1660
transgress1662
to run off1687
canceleera1697
cantona1734
excurse1748
to travel out of the record1770
divagate1852
desult1872
sidetrack1893
1687 E. Stillingfleet Doctr. Trinity & Transubstant. ii. 3 I see you have a mind to change your Discourse, and to run off from the Trinity to the Churches Authority in Matters of Faith.
1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian i. 4 Still you run off from biass; say what moves Your present spleen?
1698 E. Settle Def. Dramatick Poetry 28 In this Authority of Ovid, our Learned Observator, quite forgets himself, and runs off from his Theme.
1734 D. Waterland Importance Doctr. Trinity i. 32 [This] is running off from the Question about the Scriptural-Proof of the Doctrine, to the natural Possibility of the Thing.
1768 S. Roe Another Pertinent & Curious Let. 27 He is run off from his bias—is gone beyond his depth; his rational faculties are immerged.
1861 Temple Bar 3 552 Then my lady ran off to tell us how dull Fernwood was.
1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue ii. 142 It [sc. the word whole] has since run off from sense of hale, sound.., into that of complete.
1890 Proc. Philadelphia County Med. Soc. 11 250 The discussion has run off from the original text.
1924 ‘L. Malet’ Dogs of Want iii. 72 We do seem to keep running off from Marie Louise and Mr. Fisher, don't we?
5. intransitive. To diminish in size, width, etc.; to taper. Now rare.
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the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)]
narrowOE
waneOE
smallOE
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welk1390
fade1398
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to grow downwards?1523
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settlea1642
to run off1765
dwarf1776
comminute1850
downsize1977
1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 94 It should have an hollow back, running off taper from the shoulders.
1782 F. Douglas Gen. Descr. E. Coast Scotl. xiv. 115 The upper part..is about twenty inches broad at the centre, and runs off gradually to a point at both ends.
1804 Monthly Mag. Mar. 157/1 To form the shanks of nails at once, by making them thick at one end, and running off to a point at the other.
1866 A. G. Findlay Direct. Navigation Indian Ocean iv. 226 Miller Point runs off to a ledge of dry rocks, beyond which there is an isolated rock one cable to the south-eastward.
1910 L. Forster tr. M. Braun & M. Lühe Handbk. Pract. Parasitol. iii. ii. 184 The abdomen is rounded at the sides and runs off to a point at the back.
6.
a. transitive. To cause (a race) to be run, esp. after a series of heats or in order to settle a tie, or after the race has been delayed; to decide (a race) finally.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > race (a race) [verb (transitive)] > decide a race
to run off1798
1798 Sporting Mag. Feb. 241/2 Ten capital matches were run the first day, and every match but one run off the second day.
1831 Sporting Mag. July 209/2 Sunshine and the love of money brought out Mouche..to run off this unfortunate dead heat.
1892 Field 17 Sept. 446/3 It was a big order to have to run off eighty courses in the day.
1954 Billboard 9 Oct. 66/3 The rained-out race program was run off on Friday.
2003 W. Fotheringham Cent. Cycling 42/2 The first race was run off in freezing rain.
b. intransitive. To take part in a deciding race. Cf. run-off n. 4a.
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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > take part in match or competition [verb (intransitive)] > engage in match or competition > types of
handicap1839
to run a bye1848
to run off1866
to play off1901
1866 Coursing Cal. Spring 8 Gunboat and Express Train were placed in slips to run off for the cup.
1874 Country 20 Aug. 168/2 In running off for third prize Richardson won by a foot.
1908 Refrigerating World Sept. 39/1 It was run in six heats of 5 contestants each, and then the winners ran off for the prizes.
1915 Times 18 Feb. 18/1 The trial was not run.., and it was arranged to divide the stake money and run off for the cup..at a later date.
2002 J. O'Hara Big River Racing 57 The..committee required the two horses to ‘run off’ for the Maiden after the last scheduled race.
7.
a. intransitive. To diminish in quantity; to go down in price, value, etc.; = to run down 9b at Phrasal verbs 1.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > decrease in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (intransitive)]
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to take off1776
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to go down1823
attenuatea1834
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downscale1945
1816 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 13 Nov. Our present stocks are so small that they will be run off before your next crop can come fairly into our market.
1852 J. Lalor Money & Morals vii. 77 Those who are letting stocks run off and avoiding new engagements.
1890 Sat. Rev. 15 Nov. 557/1 Those who held upon borrowed money, finding margins running off and differences increasing against them, have been obliged to sell.
1955 Times 3 May 15/1 In the first quarter of this year the surplus has tended to run off.
2010 Townsville (Queensland) Bull. (Nexis) 25 Feb. 29 Dividing the lending portfolio into core and non-core, and letting the non-core assets run off gradually.
b. transitive. Chiefly Business. To dispose of, run down (stock, assets, etc.).
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1821 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 18 July Cotton, inferior qualities of which can only be run off at reduced rates.
1846 in R. H. Bonnycastle Canada & Canadians in 1846 II. xvi. 186 I shall commence running off my beautiful stock of Paris muslins and Balzorines, at great reduction.
1907 Jrnl. Canad. Bankers' Assoc. Apr. 224 Manufacturers and dealers worked up or ran off accumulated stocks and bought only from hand to mouth.
2003 Hansard Commons (Electronic ed.) 8 Dec. 327 w The rules requiring approved occupational pension schemes to run off their surplus funds (for example by agreeing contributions holidays).
8. transitive. U.S. To drive off or stampede (cattle, etc.), esp. preparatory to stealing them; (more generally) to steal, carry off. Also: to abduct.
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the mind > possession > taking > taking surreptitiously > take surreptitiously [verb (transitive)]
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stealc950
undernimc1175
to run away with?c1430
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steal?1473
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to run off1821
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sneak1883
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palm1941
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)]
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to gipsy away1696
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to make off with1768
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to run off1821
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to pull off1865
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boost1912
hot-stuff1914
score1914
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to knock off1919
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heist1930
hoist1931
rabbit1943
to rip off1967
to have off1974
1821 Acts Commonw. Kentucky 30th Gen. Assembly 1st Sess. cccxx. 401 The said William Chambers has threatened to run off some negroes belonging to the children of said Polly.
1825 in H.R. Rep. 19th U.S. Congr. 2nd Session (1827) No. 98. 608 They have..burned and destroyed some of our houses, run off our negroes, cattle, horses, and hogs, and forced us to fly from our nation.
1871 A. B. Warner Golden Thorns 95 They're goin' to run off some o' Graves's sheep arter that.
1897 Gospel in All Lands Sept. 412/2 A Mohammedan..tried to accuse him of running off his wife and stealing her jewels.
1911 D. Coolidge Texican xii. 182 I know dam' well that little cuss over there burnt my IC cow and run off all my Wine-glasses.
1967 T. W. Blackburn Good Day to Die xxvi. 207 Some of the fleeing Hunkpapas, vengeful and in need of transportation for the weakest among them, ran off some of the police horses.
2003 T. Braatz Surviving Conquest ii. 64 Kwevkepayas went to Pima villages to run off horses and cattle and, less frequently, stole horses from Western Apache camps.
9. transitive. Originally and chiefly Australian and New Zealand. To separate (sheep, cattle, etc.) from the main body. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > cut out
ride1790
shed1791
shoot1824
to run off1861
to cut out1862
cut1903
1861 H. Earle Ups & Downs 43 When you can run off any stock from the station, leave two stones on the table in the hut.
1890 G. A. Brown Sheep Breeding Austral. (ed. 2) 471 From the flock of 2-tooth rams..a sufficient number were run off to fill the pens.
1931 S. Afr. Farmer's Advocate 28 137/2 Run off, say, 40 sheep and have these shorn.
1947 Advertiser (Adelaide) 22 Mar. 4/1 Another grazier auctioned a consignment of 60 lambs, dividing them equally between two agents, and requesting them to run off half from each lot and sell in separate pens.
1965 J. S. Gunn Terminol. Shearing Industry ii. 15 Run-off, to take a group of sheep from the flock without necessarily ‘cutting out’ all of this group or ‘drafting’ them into special lots, for example ‘I'll run off some fats’.
10. intransitive. Horticulture. Of a fruit crop: to drop from the tree or bush prematurely. Cf. run-off n. 5.
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1901 Garden 17 Aug. 110/3 The fruit has been particularly noticed to ‘run off’, before the leaves die away, on poor soil.
1945 Agriculture 52 364 Any cultivation does a certain amount of damage to the surface feeding roots, and if these are damaged in the spring, the crop is likely to ‘run off’ badly.
2005 D. L. Barney & K. E. Hummer Currants, Gooseberries, & Jostaberries vii. 109 When pollination is poor, berries near the tips of the clusters tend to ‘run off’ or abort after they appear to be set.
11. intransitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.). to run off at the mouth: to talk excessively or unwisely; to talk nonsense; to chatter, gossip. Cf. to run one's mouth at Phrases 2z.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > be talkative [verb (intransitive)] > talk excessively or chatter
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to gallop away1711
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to talk (etc.) nineteen to the dozen1785
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tongue-pad1825
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buzz1832
to shoot off one's mouth1864
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chin1884
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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
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > talk idly [verb (intransitive)]
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rot1896
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to run off at the mouth1908
drool1923
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crap1940
natter1942
yack1950
yacker1961
yacket1969
1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 30 Dec. The general always had a good deal to say, but since he has been elected to the state Senate he has had a continuous running-off at the mouth, such as was never seen before in this country.]
1908 Nazarene Messenger 16 Jan. 3/3 They profess it [sc. holiness], i.e. ‘run off at the mouth a little’, but those folks seldom travail in prayer.
1951 Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chron. 12 Sept. 14/6 Culio... A run-of-the-mob gunsel—till he runs off at the mouth!
1973 Winnipeg Free Press 17 Nov. 59/1 Beddoes really started to run off at the mouth as he told how Herron had been ousted from the Canadian Football League.
2001 D. Garlock Edge of Town (2002) viii. 114 ‘She'd sure like to get herself a man who'd—’ ‘That's enough!’ Jethro glared at the girl. ‘You've been runnin' off at the mouth quite a lot lately.’
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