blab
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
Definition of blab
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ambitransitive)To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
“blab about something”
“And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.”
“1998, "Helga Blabs It All", TV episode in season 3 of Hey Arnold!, animated television series created by Craig Bartlett Helga Blabs It All.”
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verb
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(ambitransitive)To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
“blab about something”
“And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.”
“1998, "Helga Blabs It All", TV episode in season 3 of Hey Arnold!, animated television series created by Craig Bartlett Helga Blabs It All.”
- to speak carelessly or excessively
noun
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(countable)One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
“"You'd better have shoved your grey snout in a hornets' nest, Badger, than suggest that I am the blab," said Nikabrik.”
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(uncountable)Gossip; prattle.
“Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English blabben (“to talk foolishly”), perhaps from Middle English blabbe (“idle talk; talebearer”). Compare Middle English blaberen (“to blabber, babble”), Middle High German blabezen (“to stammer, babble”).
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