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Etymology
blab + tongue
Noun
blabtongue (plural blabtongues)
- (obsolete) An informant.
1600, Rev. Samuel Nicholson, edited by Rev. Alexander B. Grosart, Acolastus: His After-Witte, published 1876, page 14, lines 229–234:Much like a Curre (ſaid I) nay not so wiſe; / For why I know my griefes vnhappie ground, / I ſee the roote from whence my paſſions riſe, / And view the lure, that did my life confound: / O blab-tongue Tantalus, why doſt not eate? / Fondling, t'is I must pine in ſight of meate.
1683, John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus, Chiswick: C. Wittingham, published 1820, page 28:Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times, / That rather magnifies than lessens crimes,
- (obsolete) A gossip.
1718, The Entertainer, London: Nathaniel Mist, page 37:Unleſs perhaps ſome unſociable rattling Diſturber or other falls in among 'em and breaks thro' all the Rules of good Breeding and Diſcretion; whoſe Company is a Peſt, and carries Infection about with it; whoſe ungovernable Blab Tongue is able to put a whole Pariſh into a blazing; to turn all the all the Tea in the Town; or even to curdle and ſowr the very Milk and Sugar in it.
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