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noun
One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Gossip; prattle.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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verb
To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: ambitransitive
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verb
to speak carelessly or excessively
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
divulge confidential information or secrets
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out
verb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Narrower terms: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
History
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”).
Across languages
11 source translations are retained for this English entry.
