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Grammar : Verb
Spell : blab
Phonetic Transcription : blæb



Definition of blab

Origin :
  • 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].
  • verb gossip
Example sentences :
  • "It is so easy not to blab when one has nothing to tell," said Jekyl, smiling.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • You an' I ain't got noth'n' to worry about, Ingua—unless you blab.'
  • Extract from : « Mary Louise in the Country » by L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
  • I mean that Dick Prescott and his gang had to go and blab on us!
  • Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock
  • Should he blab it out, and so be poor again, and lose the crock?
  • Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Betsy, if I talk out square you 'll not blab it all 'round the village, will yer?
  • Extract from : « Wappin' Wharf » by Charles S. Brooks
  • Mother earth will not blab to any one; she'll keep it close.
  • Extract from : « The Power of Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy
  • The reader will bear in mind that Oliver means the moon—to "whiddle" is to blab.
  • Extract from : « Rookwood » by William Harrison Ainsworth
  • It iss only geese that blab out all they think to everybody that asks them questions.
  • Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • I'd be the very last to blab; and I like fun as well as anybody.
  • Extract from : « The Youngest Girl in the Fifth » by Angela Brazil
  • So in case she gets a chance to blab to someone, we'll say you had it.
  • Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz

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