blab
pronunciation
How to pronounce blab in British English:
UK [blæb]
How to pronounce blab in American English:
US [blæb]
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- Verb:
- divulge confidential information or secrets
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Word Origin
- blab (v.)
- 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].
Example
- 1. So you blab all your secrets to your boss .
- 2. He blab bed my confidences to every one .
- 3. You know she 'll just blab all the secrets .
- 4. She always likes to blab about how successful her husband .
- 5. So you blab your secret to .