Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of blurt
nounblurting (plural blurtings)
plural blurtings
- Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking.
The school often has far more information than parents realise, e.g. from the blurtings of the child and his peers, the behaviour of the parents, and what the school bus driver has seen.
2012, Jonathan O.H. Williams, Peter D. Hill, A Handbook for the Assessment of Children's Behaviours, page 371
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