Synonyms for blab
Grammar : Verb |
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Phonetic Transcription : blæb |
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Définition of blab
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
- "It is so easy not to blab when one has nothing to tell," said Jekyl, smiling.
- Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever
- You an' I ain't got noth'n' to worry about, Ingua—unless you blab.'
- Extract from : « Mary Louise in the Country » by L. Frank Baum (AKA Edith Van Dyne)
- I mean that Dick Prescott and his gang had to go and blab on us!
- Extract from : « The Grammar School Boys of Gridley » by H. Irving Hancock
- Should he blab it out, and so be poor again, and lose the crock?
- Extract from : « The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper » by Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Betsy, if I talk out square you 'll not blab it all 'round the village, will yer?
- Extract from : « Wappin' Wharf » by Charles S. Brooks
- Mother earth will not blab to any one; she'll keep it close.
- Extract from : « The Power of Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy
- The reader will bear in mind that Oliver means the moon—to "whiddle" is to blab.
- Extract from : « Rookwood » by William Harrison Ainsworth
- It iss only geese that blab out all they think to everybody that asks them questions.
- Extract from : « The Walrus Hunters » by R.M. Ballantyne
- I'd be the very last to blab; and I like fun as well as anybody.
- Extract from : « The Youngest Girl in the Fifth » by Angela Brazil
- So in case she gets a chance to blab to someone, we'll say you had it.
- Extract from : « Legacy » by James H Schmitz
Antonyms for blab
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