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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blabber

Blabber \Blab"ber\, n. one who blabr; a tattler; a telltale.

Syn: blabbermouth. [1913 Webster]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
blabber

mid-14c., "to speak as an infant speaks," frequentative of blabben, of echoic origin (compare Old Norse blabbra, Danish blabbre "babble," German plappern "to babble"). Meaning "to talk excessively" is from late 14c. Related: Blabbered; blabbering.

Wiktionary
blabber

n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale. vb. 1 To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently. 2 To blab; to let out a secret.

WordNet
blabber
  1. n. one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer]

  2. v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, gabble]

Usage examples of "blabber".

I was playing the part of a blabber-mouthed drunken sailor, and just doing it too damn well.

If it didn't want us to make the best of that format, it would've just told you to shut up and would've blabbered at you from a burning bush!

The more I swore I wasn’t going to say anymore, the more I warned her that I was looking out for her own safety, the more I blabbered about the whole ugly business.

Alone without its cloak, the mindless singleton had blabbered its pain.

The two hadn't even passed through the northern gate of Palmaris when some of the sentries had begun blabbering about the many changes that had taken place in the city.

And when a loved one of theirs is lying in bed constantly soiling their adult diapers, pissing all over the new designer sheets, and blabbering on like the crippled souls whose care and funding they just cut from the federal budget—well, in times like these, rich or poor, pus from facial sores all starts looking the same.

The only course may seem to be to forget the whole effort and become absorbed in trivialities, or to check out of the game by suicide or psychosis, and spend the rest of your days blabbering in an asylum.

That's what they deserve for keeping us in the saddle, blabbering in the sun!

There in a corner was a blabbering television set, hanging from the ceiling.

What's more, he blabbers, while the others are only interested in the scraps I throw them.

He blabbers and spits like a confirmed stutterer … no sequence to his phrases.

He tried to speak out, but only undecipherable blabber came past his trembling lips.

There were Pernods in front of us again, the gramophone was shrieking, people were jabbering away in English and French and Dutch and Norwegian and Spanish, and Jimmie and his wife, both of them looking very brisk and dapper, were slapping and kissing each other heartily and raising their glasses and clinking them altogether such a bubble and blabber of merriment that you felt like pulling off your clothes and doing a war dance.