blab

[ blab ]

/ blæb /

Informal.

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verb (used with object), blabbed, blab·bing.

to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.

verb (used without object), blabbed, blab·bing.

to talk or chatter indiscreetly or thoughtlessly: Don't confide in him, because he blabs. She blabbed so much I couldn't hear the concert.

noun

idle, indiscreet chattering.

a person who blabs; blabbermouth.

Nearby words

bks., bkt., bl, bl lac object, bl., blab, blabber, blabbermouth, black, black acacia, black alder

Also blab·ber

[blab-er] /ˈblæb ər/.

Origin of blab

1325–75; Middle English blabbe (noun), perhaps back formation from blaberen to blabber; cognate with Old Norse blabbra, German plappern

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Examples from the Web for blab

For someone in the blab business, she could be remarkably discreet.
New Clue in Chasen Murder|A. L. Bardach|December 6, 2010|DAILY BEAST
He said he had a nice fresh flat who thought it a fine thing to play the spy and blab all he found out.
Frank Merriwell at Yale|Burt L. Standish
Did not Ffob Oothout tell me to blab no secrets and shut my teeth tight?
Tales of the Chesapeake|George Alfred Townsend
Well, sez Horace, speakin in a low secret-tellin tone, Ill tell ya; but I dont want ya to blab it to every one ya see.
Friar Tuck|Robert Alexander Wason

Good, excellent: he will not blab; secureness lives in secrecy.
The Works of John Marston|John Marston
Pinkey had warned him that at the first openly hostile act he would "blab" the story of the Skull Creek episode far and wide.
The Dude Wrangler|Caroline Lockhart

British Dictionary definitions for blab

blab

/ (blæb) /

verb blabs, blabbing or blabbed

to divulge (secrets) indiscreetly

(intr) to chatter thoughtlessly; prattle

noun

a less common word for blabber (def. 1), blabber (def. 2)

Derived Forms

blabbing, noun, adjective

Word Origin for blab

C14: of Germanic origin; compare Old High German blabbizōn, Icelandic blabbra

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