Blabtongue
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Blabtongue is a noun meaning (obsolete) An informant.
Meaning
(obsolete) An informant.
More Meanings
- (obsolete) A gossip.
Example Sentences
Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times, / That rather magnifies than lessens crimes,
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.
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.
Word Forms
- blabtongues
- blab-tongue
Synonyms for blabtongue
Depending on context, synonyms include blabtale, grass, tattletale, gossip, rumourmonger.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include blab-tongue, blabtale, blab-tale, tongue-pad, tonguepad, tonguer.
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