blab-tongue

Noun

blabtongue (plural blabtongues)

1. (obsolete) An informant.
   • Much like a Curre (ſaid I) nay not so wiſe; / For why I know my griefes vnhappie ground, / I ſee the roote from whence my paſſions riſe, / And view the lure, that did my life confound: / O blab-tongue Tantalus, why doſt not eate? / Fondling, t'is I must pine in ſight of meate.1600, Rev. Samuel Nicholson, edited by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Acolastus: His After-Witte, published 1876, page 14, lines 229–234

   Synonyms:

   blabtale

2. (obsolete) A gossip.
   • Unleſs perhaps ſome unſociable rattling Diſturber or other falls in among 'em and breaks thro' all the Rules of good Breeding and Diſcretion; whoſe Company is a Peſt, and carries Infection about with it; whoſe ungovernable Blab Tongue is able to put a whole Pariſh into a blazing; to turn all the...1718, The Entertainer, London: Nathaniel Mist, page 37

   Synonyms:

   blabtale