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BLABBER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who reveals confidential information in return for money

Synonyms:

betrayer; blabber; informer; rat; squealer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("blabber" is a kind of...):

informant; source (a person who supplies information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blabber"):

canary; fink; sneak; sneaker; snitch; snitcher; stool pigeon; stoolie; stoolpigeon (someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police)

copper's nark; nark (an informer or spy working for the police)

grass; supergrass (a police informer who implicates many people)

Derivation:

blab (divulge confidential information or secrets)

blabber (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Synonyms:

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "blabber" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "blabber"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

blabber (one who reveals confidential information in return for money)

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