blabtongue

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An informant. obsolete
    — 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.
  2. A gossip. obsolete
    — 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.

词形变化

blabtongues plural blab-tongue alternative

词汇关系

近义词
grass snitch tattletale gossip rumourmonger

词源

From blab + tongue.
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