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blab

/blæb/

blab verb: to tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

Verb

blab (third-person singular simple present blabs, present participle blabbing, simple past and past participle blabbed)

  1. (ambitransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
    • blab about something
    • 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
  2. to speak carelessly or excessively

Noun

blab (countable and uncountable, plural blabs)

  1. (countable) 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. (uncountable) 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

blab meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

blab in Tamil

கண்ணீர்வடி, உளறு, மறைவெளியிடுபவர், மறை வெளியிடு, பதற்று, வீங்கு

blab in Urdu

بک بک کرنا, سوجنا

blab in Malayalam

talk, give the game away, let the cat out of the bag
ചപ്പടാച്ചിപറയുക, വളരെസംസാരിക്കുക, അധികം സംസാരിക്കുക, അധികപ്രസംഗം നടത്തുക, വായാടിയാകുക, പുലമ്പുക
let slip, blurt out, let out
ആലോചിക്കാതെ പെട്ടെന്നു പറയുക, പറഞ്ഞുപോകുക, അറിയാതെ പറഞ്ഞുപോവുക, അറിയാതെ വായിൽനിന്നു വീണുപോകുക, പറഞ്ഞൂടുക, പറഞ്ഞുകളക

blab in Kannada

ಅವಿವೇಕದಿಂದ ಮಾತನಾಡು, ಮೈಮರೆತು ನುಡಿ, ಅಸಂಬದ್ಧವಾಗಿ ಮಾತನಾಡು, ಬಡಬಡಿಸು

Synonyms of blab

Forms of blab

Verb
third-person singular presentblabs
present participleblabbing
past participleblabbed
pastblabbed
Noun
pluralblabs

Past tense of blab: blabbed

Origin of blab

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”).

Words formed from blab

Phrases with blab

Words that rhyme with blab

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Questions about blab

What does blab mean?
Blab means to tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
What is blab in Tamil?
Blab in Tamil is கண்ணீர்வடி, உளறு, மறைவெளியிடுபவர். See Blab meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is blab?
Blab can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce blab?
Blab is pronounced /blæb/.
What is the past tense of blab?
The past tense of blab is blabbed.

Words near blab in the dictionary

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  8. blab school
  9. blab schools
  10. blab-off switch
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Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blab (page history and authors); blab (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blab (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); blab (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); blab (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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