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Meanings of blab in English

Portuguese
tagarelar
Catalan
divulgar
Spanish
charlar

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

tagarelar

An incessant or indiscreet talker.

Usage of blab in English
1
One has only to blab in his cups and it all collapses.
Crime and Punishment
2
Breanne will blab everything to her friends, to people at the party.
Murder most frothy
3
You let me blab about the soft places, about my family's secrets.
The Long Earth
4
He would blab to my daddy, and I would get a whuppin'.
God don't like ugly
5
You blab to my wife, and I'll be as good as dead.
One for the money
6
And a fine lot you chose to blab to there, you two.
The Left Hand of Darkness
7
You get plenty of laugh, and no tiresome blab to listen to.
The Market-Place
8
He loves her too well not to blab to her every secret.
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
9
I shouldn't blab this all round the parish, if I was you.
Wandering Heath
10
But if they git Frenchy away from Texas they'll make him blab.
The Border Legion
11
Peachy Proctor, if you blab like this you'll be tarred and feathered.
The Jolliest School of All
12
To go and blab trade secrets to every customer that comes along?
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
13
De' yez think that I'm goin' to blab all about our good-turn?
Rod of the Lone Patrol
14
Tronstad makes an exaggerated gesture that implies he'd rather die than blab.
The smoke room: a novel of suspense
15
Foreign words, new words, long words, higher mathematics, often register blab.
The Tyranny Of Words
16
Those who possess good memories might remember your indiscretion and blab about it.
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Translations for blab
Portuguese
tagarelarcantar
Blab through the time
Blab across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common