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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
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