Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blabtongue

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: blabtongue
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obsolete

noun

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."
"Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times, / That rather magnifies than lessens crimes,"
"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."

Etymology

From blab + tongue.

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

blabtongues (plural) blab-tongue (alternative)

Synonyms

blabtale grass snitch tattletale gossip rumourmonger

Questions

What does blabtongue mean?: An informant.
Where does blabtongue come from?: From blab + tongue.

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