Meaning of blabtongue | Babel Free

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.”

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