blab

present singular third person blabs · participle present blabbing · participle past blabbed · past blabbed

1. ambitransitiveTo tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

   blab about something

   2 more examples

   And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.

   1855, Alfred Tennyson, “(please specify the page)”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

   1998, "Helga Blabs It All", TV episode in season 3 of Hey Arnold!, animated television series created by Craig Bartlett Helga Blabs It All.

2. to speak carelessly or excessively

plural blabs

1. countableOne 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. uncountableGossip; 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