What's the difference between blab and blah?

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.

Blah


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
  • (2) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
  • (3) Yes, yes, Richard Gere in American Gigolo, Cary Grant in North by Northwest, Steve McQueen in Bullitt, Colin Firth and Daniel Craig in whatever, blah blah freaking blah.
  • (4) but during a very dark period of my life, tapes I made of Peter Green era Fleetwod Mac (the best blues player in the history of ever...) and Free (best band in history of blah blah...) virtually saved me from an early exit...." Katewashere : "My Dad bought me a walkman in 1984.
  • (5) So I could fret about the fact that my dog has a capsule wardrobe and worry about being a crazy dog lady and blah blah blah.
  • (6) Not from tax increases, says Mitt, and blahs along about how all those new jobs he's going to create will increase revenue.
  • (7) You could be run over tomorrow, blah, blah …" Oh, thank you, just before I drive across London to visit another chum.
  • (8) It contained blah about “smart cities” and equity funds, even a rupee-denominated bond.
  • (9) [Police say:] 'Oh, you know, loads of these cars get stolen, so we just need to check you are who you say you are, blah blah blah.'
  • (10) This contained a lot of false and frothy promises to “initiate an inclusive process of national debate …” blah, blah, blah.
  • (11) "Guardian readers are all like: 'Oh but you have to work for your money, blah blah blah and all that.'
  • (12) En route we've had Rick Santorum insisting that he does not equate homosexuality with bestiality – or, as he memorably phrased it, " man on dog " – and that when he had appeared to make a disobliging reference to black people , he had in fact been speaking of "blah" people.
  • (13) He says: ‘Right, this club has just called me – blah-blah-blah.
  • (14) It was frightening at first, but she preferred it to being in a band, where 'You're not going to do anything unless you're onstage with your specific people and your lights and your songs and... blah .'
  • (15) All the cliches – not taking life for granted, blah, blah, blah.
  • (16) Semi-autobiographical in focus, the album was a dog of monumental proportions, weak songs failing to carry a catastrophically weak concept (girl from wrong side of the tracks makes it in the big, wide blah blah blah).
  • (17) How much more interesting and revealing this show would have been if all of the liberal blah-blah here and the Ivy League newsroom nebbishes had been replaced by more current conservative agitprop and rightwing message enforcers.
  • (18) But out in The Real World, leopard print still has ridiculous connotations, such as the ones I mentioned above: Bet Lynch, untrustworthy temptresses, blah blah blah.
  • (19) The latest jobs report had the unemployment rate at 7.7%, the lowest level since December 2008 but still blah, and inflation at 1.6.
  • (20) "I didn't fall for the trick of Jonathan, 'I had no shoes, blah, blah,' all that stuff he was saying when he was campaigning," Kuti said.