blab
nounEtymology 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”).
1
One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.
- "You'd better have shoved your grey snout in a hornets' nest, Badger, than suggest that I am the blab," said Nikabrik.1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia:
2
Gossip; prattle.
- Audie never liked him because he was further in with old Craig than he was, bragging and blowing about his work and the things he could do, while Audie sat quiet as a mouse listening to his blab.1976, David Toulmin, Blown Seed, page 148:
- Derived terms
- blab-off switch, blab school
- Related terms
- blabber, blabbermouth, blabby, blubber