Antonyms for blabbing

Grammar : Verb

Spell : blab

Phonetic Transcription : blæb

Definition of blabbing

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 :

Still, what a lucky escape I had had from blabbing about my exhibition!
Extract from : « Tom, Dick and Harry » by Talbot Baines Reed

There was no evasion in her reply; her only reproach was for his childishness in blabbing.
Extract from : « Unwritten Literature of Hawaii » by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

The hoodlums, one of whom is himself the sinner, have been blabbing, says he.
Extract from : « Unwritten Literature of Hawaii » by Nathaniel Bright Emerson

Well, of course, miss, I'll do my best—I hope I aint one of the blabbing sort.
Extract from : « A Young Mutineer » by Mrs. L. T. Meade

We gain as many hours as we may hold him from blabbing to Privy Seal.
Extract from : « Privy Seal » by Ford Madox Ford

Ach Himmel, you will not have the chance of blabbing any more secrets!
Extract from : « The Hero of Garside School » by J. Harwood Panting

Give him the half of it if he pouts; and—have a care—no blabbing!
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 » by Various

"So you're still at your blabbing," a voice at the door suddenly broke in.
Extract from : « A Family of Noblemen » by Mikhal Saltykov

Have you been blabbing again at the House of the Tall Pines?
Extract from : « The N Plays of Japan » by Arthur Waley

But the fact remains that Ftis has taken to blabbing, and must be gagged.
Extract from : « Mohawks, Volume 3 of 3 » by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

Synonyms for blabbing

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