Ain't you got no sense at all—blabbing out your business in front of all them strangers?
Well, of course, miss, I'll do my best—I hope I aint one of the blabbing sort.
"Ask the foul fiend; you don't catch me blabbing," was the laconic reply.
We gain as many hours as we may hold him from blabbing to Privy Seal.
The hoodlums, one of whom is himself the sinner, have been blabbing, says he.
Give him the half of it if he pouts; and—have a care—no blabbing!
He cut off the payment of my drafts with his blabbing tongue!
Still, what a lucky escape I had had from blabbing about my exhibition!
I have been obliged to stop her mouth with more than one coin to keep her from blabbing to the Grand Duchess.
There was no evasion in her reply; her only reproach was for his childishness in blabbing.
mid-15c., apparently from Middle English noun blabbe "one who does not control his tongue" (late 13c.), probably echoic. Related: Blabbed; blabbing. The exact relationship between the blabs and blabber is difficult to determine. The noun was "[e]xceedingly common in 16th and 17th c.; unusual in literature since c 1750" [OED].
