BLAB (blabbed, blabbing)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected forms: blabbed    , blabbing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does blab mean? 

• BLAB (verb)
  The verb BLAB has 2 senses:

1. divulge confidential information or secrets

2. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

  Familiarity information: BLAB used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAB (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they blab    ... he / she / it blabs   
Past simple: blabbed   
Past participle: blabbed   
-ing form: blabbing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divulge confidential information or secrets

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

babble; babble out; blab; blab out; let the cat out of the bag; peach; sing; spill the beans; talk; tattle

Context example:

Be careful--his secretary talks

Hypernyms (to "blab" is one way to...):

break; bring out; disclose; discover; divulge; expose; give away; let on; let out; reveal; uncover; unwrap (make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret)

Verb group:

spill; talk (reveal information)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

blabber (one who reveals confidential information in return for money)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle

Hypernyms (to "blab" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blab"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

 Context examples 

“There's been too much blabbing already.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)