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blab

  [blab] verb, blabbed, blab⋅bing, noun Informal.
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–verb (used with object)
1. to reveal indiscreetly and thoughtlessly: They blabbed my confidences to everyone.
–verb (used without object)
2. to talk or chatter indiscreetly or thoughtlessly: Don't confide in him, because he blabs. She blabbed so much I couldn't hear the concert.
–noun
3. idle, indiscreet chattering.
4. a person who blabs; blabbermouth.
Also, blab⋅ber  [blab-er] .

Origin:
1325–75; ME blabbe (n.), perh. back formation from blaberen to blabber; c. ON blabbra, G plappern
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blab·ber   (blāb'ər)   
intr.v.   blab·bered, blab·ber·ing, blab·bers
To chatter; babble.
n.  

  1. Idle chatter.

  2. A blabbermouth.


[Middle English blaberen.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
blab [blæb]

  1. n.
    talk; chatter; meaningless talk. : I never pay any attention to blab like that.
  2. tv.
    to tell a secret; to reveal something private in public. : Tiffany blabbed the whole thing.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

blab 
1535, from noun meaning "one who does not control his tongue" (c.1374), probably echoic.

blabber  (v.)
1362, frequentative of blabben, of echoic origin. Blabbermouth first recorded 1936.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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