What's the difference between blab and blabbermouth?
Blab
Definition:
(v.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.
(v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.
(n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequency of antigen-reactive NAbs was about half the frequency of antigen-reactive antibodies found among the BlAbs.
(2) "In the UK, producers tell you not to get drunk and blab the EastEnders storylines in the pub," says Shekoni.
(3) Guy-Man points out that, after all, they have not got this far by blabbing about their plans.
(4) Anyway, this is only a minor indiscretion, compared to some of the blabbing I've done, even when I've been trying very hard not to.
(5) I once blabbed about Z's boyfriend, in front of her other boyfriend, even though, as I entered the room, I was reminding myself that I must on no account, mention A's name in front of B.
(6) The second I come across a familiar person I find myself blabbing about it.
(7) 'These are delicate security matters which are also politically sensitive, so I am appalled that Mo Mowlam has seen fit to blab on a television chat show.
(8) It really tore me up, because I didn’t want to blab my side of the story, and I haven’t and I still won’t, out of respect for Angel and out of respect I still have for him.
(9) But what is striking is the absolute understanding of the ITV 29 that they must not blab.
(10) Jesse's there, still blabbing on about books, proving that the key to a good one-night stand is leaving very quickly afterwards.
(11) Monospecific as well as multireactive HEL-binding BlAbs were found at frequencies comparable to other protein antigens in the panel, and HEL-reactive NAbs were also present.
(12) Photograph: Graham Parker Healey works well with Twellman – the former player is emphatic when he does speak but as he says, "One of the things I want to to do as a game analyst is to not overstep my mark with the play by play guy, and I've learned that by watching a lot of the EPL type announcers, where that analysts doesn't talk a lot – and when he does it's short, sweet and to the point, and they try not to blab on and on about something."
(13) "I just had to respond to the comment from Chris Roberts in the 49th minute, who seems to think that it is some sort of character flaw in Americans to complain when our team has been robbed," blabs Steven Vaughan.
(14) But after his alleged blabbing of highly classified intelligence to the Russians, Trump can now lay claim to the greatest superlative of any sitting president: he is the biggest bozo of them all.
(15) Four Trypanosoma cruzi strains from zymodemes A, B, C and D were successively cloned on BHI-LIT-agar-blood (BLAB).
(16) Over half of the IgM-secreting BlAbs produced antibodies that were antigen-reactive; of these, over half were multireactive, i.e.
(17) However, over half of the antigen-reactive NAbs were also multireactive, and the reactivity profile within the antigen-reactive subset of NAbs was similar to that within the antigen-reactive subset of BlAbs.
(18) By 1963, media allegations that Profumo had fallen into a honey trap in which Keeler was manipulated by her osteopath friend Stephen Ward (damned by hacks as a reckless libertine with MI5 and Kremlin contacts) into luring her Tory lover to blab nuclear secrets that were passed on to the Kremlin became so nearly ubiquitous that the minister felt compelled to make a statement to the House.
(19) He was just blabbing away, like ‘Oh, you think you’re a smart-ass,’ this and that.
(20) Mavis blabbed in front of my mother that my then partner was about to move in with us, before I'd told her myself.
Blabbermouth
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I blame my mother, whom my father called Blabbermouth, for training me up to spout what she called the Truth and what other people call telling the world everybody's private business.
(2) And although I am a terrific blabbermouth, I do think a bit of privacy is a good idea, but we don't seem to have much nowadays, what with blanket CCTV, NHS records, phone tapping and now general spying.
(3) Michael Billington Royal Court , London SW1 , from 17 September Blabbermouth: artists, actors, politicians, journalists and sportspeople read their favourite Scottish writing.
(4) The song We’re Not Gonna Take It is a song about rebellion, and there’s nothing more rebellious than what Donald Trump is doing right now,” Snider told TMZ ( via Blabbermouth ).
(5) I’d like to see today’s blabbermouths try that.