BLABBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blabber mean? 

• BLABBER (noun)
  The noun BLABBER has 1 sense:

1. one who reveals confidential information in return for money

  Familiarity information: BLABBER used as a noun is very rare.

• BLABBER (verb)
  The verb BLABBER has 1 sense:

1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

  Familiarity information: BLABBER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLABBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who reveals confidential information in return for money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

betrayer; blabber; informer; rat; squealer

Hypernyms ("blabber" is a kind of...):

informant; source (a person who supplies information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blabber"):

canary; fink; sneak; sneaker; snitch; snitcher; stool pigeon; stoolie; stoolpigeon (someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police)

copper's nark; nark (an informer or spy working for the police)

grass; supergrass (a police informer who implicates many people)

Derivation:

blab (divulge confidential information or secrets)

blabber (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

• BLABBER (verb)

Sense 1

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 "blabber" is one way to...):

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

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

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

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

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