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Meaning of blabtongue | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. An informant.
    obsolete
  2. A gossip.
    obsolete

Examples

“Much like a Curre (ſaid I) nay not so wiſe; / For why I know my griefes vnhappie ground, / I ſee the roote from whence my paſſions riſe, / And view the lure, that did my life confound: / O blab-tongue Tantalus, why doſt not eate? / Fondling, t'is I must pine in ſight of meate.”
“Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times, / That rather magnifies than lessens crimes,”
“Unleſs perhaps ſome unſociable rattling Diſturber or other falls in among 'em and breaks thro' all the Rules of good Breeding and Diſcretion; whoſe Company is a Peſt, and carries Infection about with it; whoſe ungovernable Blab Tongue is able to put a whole Pariſh into a blazing; to turn all the all the Tea in the Town; or even to curdle and ſowr the very Milk and Sugar in it.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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