Definition

1. Verb:

   • To speak rapidly, continuously, and often about trivial or unimportant matters; to chatter idly.
   • To reveal a secret or confidential information carelessly or indiscreetly.

2. Noun:

   • A person who talks incessantly about unimportant things.
   • A person who reveals secrets or confidential information.

Usage

• Verb: The verb "blabber" is often used informally and can imply annoyance or disapproval. It can be used intransitively (without a direct object) to describe the act of chattering, or transitively (with a direct object) when followed by the secret being revealed.
• Noun: The noun form is less common but refers to a person characterized by such behavior.

Examples

• Verb (intransitive):
  • The children would blabber on for hours about their video games.
  • Please stop blabbering; I'm trying to concentrate.
• Verb (transitive):
  • He blabbered the surprise party plans to everyone.
  • I trusted her, but she blabbered our secret.
• Noun:
  • Don't tell him anything important; he's a terrible blabber.
  • The informant was just a blabber looking for attention.

Advanced Usage

• "to blabber on": To talk continuously and at length, often annoyingly.
  • He blabbered on about his vacation for the entire meeting.
• "to blabber out": To reveal something (a secret, information) carelessly by talking.
  • In his nervousness, he blabbered out the entire plan.

Variants and Related Words

• Blab (verb/noun): A very close synonym, often used interchangeably with "blabber."
  • She'll blab if you tell her.
• Blabbermouth (noun): A more common and colloquial noun for a person who cannot keep secrets.
  • He's such a blabbermouth; the news spread in minutes.

Synonyms

• Verb: Chatter, babble, prattle, gabble, gossip, tattle, reveal, disclose.
• Noun: Chatterbox, gossip, tattletale, informer, telltale.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Blabber on: As shown in Advanced Usage.
• Blabber out: As shown in Advanced Usage.

Related Idioms

• Have a big mouth: An idiom describing someone who talks too much and cannot keep secrets, similar to being a "blabber."
  • Don't tell Sarah; she has a big mouth.

Noun

1. one who reveals confidential information in return for money

Verb

1. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly