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Word Origin & History

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 Sentences forblabbing

Still, what a lucky escape I had had from blabbing about my exhibition!

There was no evasion in her reply; her only reproach was for his childishness in blabbing.

The hoodlums, one of whom is himself the sinner, have been blabbing, says he.

Well, of course, miss, I'll do my best—I hope I aint one of the blabbing sort.

We gain as many hours as we may hold him from blabbing to Privy Seal.

Ach Himmel, you will not have the chance of blabbing any more secrets!

Give him the half of it if he pouts; and—have a care—no blabbing!

"So you're still at your blabbing," a voice at the door suddenly broke in.

Have you been blabbing again at the House of the Tall Pines?

But the fact remains that Ftis has taken to blabbing, and must be gagged.

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