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means To talk on and on, often carelessly or without much point, the way a mouth runs once it gets going.
from Echoic in origin — the word mimics the babbling sound itself. It's part of a wide family of 'bl-' words (blab, blabber, blather, blurt) built to sound loose-lipped, and it's a cousin of 'babble,' both likely rooted in the instinctive baby-talk syllable 'ba-ba,' the same impulse that gives nearly every language a word for meaningless chatter.
- origin
- imitative, like babble and blather
- key feature
- volume of words exceeds volume of ideas
- related species
- blab is the noun, gossip is the motive
- danger level
- low, unless secrets are involved