What's the difference between blab and blub?

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.

Blub


Definition:

  • (v. t. & i.) To swell; to puff out, as with weeping.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Meanwhile, Chelsea fans' disgruntlement grows: "I know Rafa said no more transfers in January but we still need a midfielder and I don't think Roman or Emenalo share their thoughts with Rafa," blubs Mihir Khatwani.
  • (2) They didn't manage to muster a threat but the mere fact that they prevented Celtic from getting off a shot for a few minutes has audibly raised the tension in the crowd ... 8.03pm BST 18 min: "I hope that the distance travelled explains Celtic's result last week," blubs Ian Kay.
  • (3) It is a cardinal sin of broadcasting, in my book anyway, to start blubbing on-air.
  • (4) After watching Kinnock slide to defeat in the 1987 general election, he recalls standing at the Welshman’s shoulder the morning after “ a half-blubbing, mullet-haired 20-year old ”.
  • (5) "Ah just want to sort out the funeral," she blubbed at the preternaturally patient Chesney, overbite quivering like a hovercraft as the prospect of another 15 years of storylines involving the widow whimpering in her HMP Plot Device netball bib lumbered horrifyingly into view.
  • (6) Last month, when he lost to Federer in the Wimbledon final, Murray blubbed, feeling he'd let down the hopes of a nation.
  • (7) But then, considering the emotional power of music and the way it entwines itself around defining moments of your life, I'd find it more pathetic if someone couldn't name a song that made them blub like a big old stupid baby.
  • (8) 2.49pm GMT Blubbing athlete of the day The skiathlon is proper hardcore activity, and I have immense respect for anyone capable of completing it, let alone doing so faster than anyone else in the entire world.
  • (9) Thus, instead of Liverpool taking a puncher's chance into the final day, they were left with grown men blubbing on national television and a final 10 minutes that resembled Sideshow Bob stepping on all the rakes .
  • (10) I'm not saying this is a turnaround like when Andy Murray blubbed and the nation learned to love him.
  • (11) "People say I come across a bit hard, but you have to be, otherwise you'd be blubbing all the time," she says.
  • (12) As we said our goodbyes, that group of junior ministers was overcome with grief and began to blub.
  • (13) While more than 17% of US winners cried at this year's Games, a world-beating 37.5% of Team GB athletes blubbed, according to analysis by the Wall Street Journal .
  • (14) 2 Kremlin spin-doctors have an explanation for everything Within minutes of Vladimir blubbing in public his spokesman came up with an ingenious explanation: it was the wind.
  • (15) And my hair's falling out, I'm getting fatter and I keep blubbing, screaming and generally losing it, however charming my customers and friends are.
  • (16) And please, can I have no emails from bed-wetting kidults blubbing that you can't call us "global warming deniers " because "denier" makes us sound like "Holocaust deniers", and that means you are comparing us to Nazis?

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