different between blabbermouth vs blabber

English

Etymology

blabber +? mouth

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?blæb.?(?)?ma??/

Noun

blabbermouth (plural blabbermouths)

1. (informal) A gossip.

   If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it.

2. (informal) A person who talks excessively.

   Synonym: chatterbox

3. (aviation) A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.
   • 1964, Civic Administration (volume 16, page 9)

     Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm.

   • 1972, ICAO Bulletin (volume 27, page x)

     The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.

   • 1983, David F. Rider, Jane's Airport Equipment (page 210)

     A manually operated monitor is provided complete with blabbermouth to deliver foam solution at a rate of 2(KX) lures a minute at 10-5 bar, to a maximum jet range of 46 metres […]

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English blaberen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?blæb.?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æb?(?)

Verb

blabber (third-person singular simple present blabbers, present participle blabbering, simple past and past participle blabbered)

1. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
   • 2014, Richard Szweda, Silenius' Gift

     He blabbered away about how he knew where some treasure was hidden and he would tell us if only we would swear to save his life.

2. To blab; to reveal a secret.
3. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.

Synonyms

• (to talk foolishly): See also Thesaurus:prattle
• (to let out a secret): See also Thesaurus:rat out

Translations

Noun

blabber (plural blabbers)

1. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:gossiper

Related terms

• blab
• blabbermouth

Translations

Anagrams

• babbler, brabble