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Blab

verb
(past & past part. blabbed; pres. part. blabbing)
1.
Divulge confidential information or secrets.  Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab out, let the cat out of the bag, peach, sing, spill the beans, talk, tattle.  Antonym: keep quiet.
2.
Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.  Synonyms: blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, twaddle.



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"Blab" Quotes from Famous Books



... dine with me tonight," Thorpe impulsively suggested, "and we'll go to some Music Hall afterward. There's a knock-about pantomime outfit at the Canterbury—Martinetti I think the name is—that's damned good. You get plenty of laugh, and no tiresome blab to listen to. The older I get, the more I think of people that ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic

... "you do mean to peach, blab, tell tales, do you? Well, it don't matter much; you'll find he can do precious little; and it will be all the worse ...
— St. Winifred's - The World of School • Frederic W. Farrar

... intrinsically are; who made them, why they were made; how they do their function; and what their function, so huge in appearance, may in net-result amount to,—is probably known to no mortal. The unofficial mind passes by in dark wonder; not pretending to know. The official mind must not blab;—the official mind, restricted to its own square foot of territory in the vast labyrinth, is probably itself dark, and unable to blab. We see the outcome; the mechanism we do not see. How the tailors clip and sew, in that sublime sweating ...
— Latter-Day Pamphlets • Thomas Carlyle

... was sent to blab about it in every tavern in Paris town. He was sent to frighten the Red Cap out of Paris town. He was suffered to blab to you that you might set your neck in a noose and be driven ...
— The Fifth Queen • Ford Madox Ford

... you're right, though," said Mackenzie. "One doesn't blab to every stranger. Even I don't, and I'm a rough ...
— The Squire's Daughter - Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons • Archibald Marshall


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