BLAB, BLABBER, BLABBING
ADJECTIVES
1200 ► TALEWISE blabbing, loquacious, garrulous; given to tales or talking; addicted to gossip → obs.
1692 ► LEAKY blabbing; not reticent; of memory: not retentive
NOUNS
1643 ► TWITTING a revealing something by indiscreet talk; a blabbing → obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
1225 ► CACKLE a blabber, a telltale; a person who chats or gossips; one who divulges a secret → sl.
1386 ► LAB → LABBE a blab; a telltale; a great talker; a chatterbox; a gossip; one who cannot keep a secret → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1400 ► CACKLER a blabber, a telltale; a person who chats or gossips; a talkative person; one who divulges a secret → sl.
1552 ► CLATTERFART a blabber, a chatterer; a babbler; a tale-teller → obs.
1555 ► BABBLER a blabber, a talebearer; a person who tells too freely what he knows; a prating gossip; a teller of secrets
1746 ► LAB-O’-THE-TONGUE a blab; a tittle-tattler; a chatterbox; one who cannot keep a secret → Eng. dial.
1807 ► TITTLE-GOOSE a foolish blab; a telltale; a foolish, tattling person → Eng. dial.
1847 ► LONG-TONGUE a blabber, a chatterbox, talebearer, telltale, gossip, or a divulger of secrets; an unusually talkative woman
1869 ► CLIT-CLAT a blab, a telltale, a talkative person; a gossip → Eng. dial.
1886 ► BLOB-TONGUE a blab, a telltale, a person who blurts out a secret; a gossip → Eng. dial.
1942 ► BALL OF YARN a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► CHINA CHIPPER a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► CLICKER a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► GATEMOUTH a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► GURGLING GARGOYLE a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► GUSHY a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SATCHEL a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1942 ► SATCHELMOUTH a blab, a person who cannot be trusted with a secret → US sl. (Bk.)
1960 ► BLOB-TALE a blabber, a telltale, a talebearer → Amer. sl.
1975 ► BASKET a blab, a person who can’t keep a secret → Amer. dial.
VERBS
1377 ► LAB to blab, to let out secrets → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1698 ► CACKLE to blab, to confess and/or to inform on others; to reveal secrets through indiscreet talk → US & UK criminals’ sl.
1708 ► RASH OUT to blab; to publish imprudently → Sc. obs.
1785 ► BLOW THE GAB to blab, to give information → sl.
1898 ► BLARE to blab, to let out secrets → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BLOACH to blab, to divulge secrets → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1899 ► BLOB to blab out, to talk indiscreetly or excessively; to chat → Amer. dial.
1966 ► LAB ONE’S MOUTH to blab, to chatter →
1968 ► FATMOUTH to blabber, to talk too much → Amer. dial., esp. African-American