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blab

WordNet
  1. (v) blab
    divulge confidential information or secrets "Be careful--his secretary talks"
  2. (v) blab
    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Blab
    One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab .", "For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler."
  2. Blab
    To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales. "She must burst or blab ."
  3. Blab
    blăb To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion; -- sometimes used with out. "And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. blab
    To utter or tell in a thoughtless or unnecessary manner (what ought to be kept secret); let out (secrets).
  2. blab
    To talk indiscreetly; tattle; tell tales.
  3. (n) blab
    A babbler; a telltale; one who betrays secrets, or tells things which ought to be kept secret.
  4. (n) blab
    A bubble; a blister; a swelling.
  5. blab
    To swell out or up; make swollen, as the cheeks.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.i) Blab
    blab to talk much: to tell tales
  2. (v.t) Blab
    to tell what ought to be kept secret (with out, forth):—pr.p. blab′bing; pa.p. blabbed
  3. (n) Blab
    an open-mouthed person, a tattler: tattling
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. OE. blaberen, or Dan. blabbre, G. plappern, Gael. blabaran, a stammerer; prob. of imitative origin. Cf. also Blubber (v.)

Usage in the news

Milaca has it all but don't go blab about it. millelacscountytimes.com

Alexa Dells Twitter account was shut down last week after she blabbed online. nydailynews.com

Alexa Dells Twitter account was shut down last week after she blabbed online about her familys whereabouts. nydailynews.com

Actors are continually blabbing about how to achieve "truth on the stage". villagevoice.com

The cast of a local radio program focused on restaurants - yes, including myself - will blab on the art of food writing tonight at 7:30 pm at the Uptown Arts Bar at 3611 Broadway. pitch.com

The problem is my wife thinks this story is highly entertaining and has blabbed to close friends and family. innipegfreepress.com

I'd blab on here, but I'm going to let the video do the talking. gna.com

I've never been good at keeping secrets, tell me and I'll blab, that's just me. bsm.com

Thinks a green potato chip she ate is poisonous and her Mom can't stop blabbing about it. iptv.org

Mike Williams, co-host of the Blab TV program "Catchin' Fish ," tells IN he is starting a campaign to create a new fishing bridge in Pensacola Bay -- one that already exists. inweekly.net

What's worse than a news anchor blabbing on live TV that Santa isn 't real. 963theblaze.com

What's worse than a news anchor blabbing on live TV that Santa isn't real. 963theblaze.com

How many times have you wanted to do this to someone on their cell phone blabbing away SUPER Loud. banana1015.com

Daily News editor Geoff Dougherty blabs about journalism, the Daily News and assorted other subjects. chitowndailynews.org

Let all your employees blab and blog. ired.com

Usage in scientific papers

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Compilation of Weighted Finite-State Transducers from Decision Trees

Usage in literature

I shouldn't blab this all round the parish, if I was you. "The Boy Scouts Book of Stories" by Various

I blab about you to the King? "Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess" by Henry W. Fischer

And now you know the truth, take care that you never blab out a word to anyone, or, by Heaven, it will be the worse for you! "The White Lie" by William Le Queux

Why," he added, finding that Adam didn't speak, "'twas through the letter I carr'ed from he that her'd got it to blab about. "Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880" by Various

Too much blabbing going on all the time. "Mayflower (Flor de mayo)" by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

I'm afraid some one of them has blabbed and this Northrup is the result. "At the Crossroads" by Harriet T. Comstock

And in each case, that flash occurred just before they started to blab everything they knew. "Occasion for Disaster" by Gordon Randall Garrett

Or who'd be at all likely to blab out something that would ruin an old pal's reputation? "Lion Loose" by James H. Schmitz

You know Chalmers just blabs everything to the Judge. "In the Heart of a Fool" by William Allen White

I didn't mean to blab this way. "Chicken Little Jane on the Big John" by Lily Munsell Ritchie

Usage in poetry
Tis like a fancy everywhere
A sort of living doubt
We know tis something but it neer
Will blab the secret out
So when thou hast, as I
Commanded thee, done blabbing—
Although to give the lie
Deserves no less than stabbing—
Stab at thee he that will,
No stab the soul can kill.
You come along squirting words at us, shaking your fist
and calling us all damn fools so fierce the froth slobbers
over your lips. . . always blabbing we're all
going to hell straight off and you know all about it.
And boyish dreams some graybeards blab:
"To sea, my lads, we go no more
Who share the Acapulco prize;
We'll all night in, and bang the door;
Our ingots red shall yield us bliss:
Lads, golden years begin to-night with this!"