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Literary notes about blabber (AI summary)

In literature, "blabber" is frequently employed to characterize indiscriminate or excessive talk that often carries a derogatory sense. Writers use it to label characters as meddlesome or unreliable with their loose-lipped behavior, as in one case where a loquacious individual is warned about the dangers of his unguarded chatter ([1], [2]). It also appears to denote those who reveal confidential or trivial matters, suggesting that such verbosity can lead to personal or social ruin ([3], [4], [5]). At times, the word functions almost as a colloquial shorthand for a gossipy or opinionated person, enriching the narrative by drawing upon the everyday language of the speaker ([6], [7]). Overall, this term’s varied application—from emphasizing sinister indiscretion to painting a picture of rhetorically vibrant dialogue—demonstrates its enduring flexibility as a literary device ([8], [9]).
  1. Old blabber mouth, there, is going to have plenty of chance to work his yap.
    — from Dave Dawson with the Pacific Fleet by Robert Sidney Bowen
  2. Your old sweetheart an’t far off, and she’s a blabber.’
    — from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
  3. I guessed of course that some Nihilist blabber had told the facts, and that I was bound for Siberia, or worse.
    — from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont
  4. No, sir, I am no tale-bearer, or blabber of secrets.
    — from Sheppard Lee, Written by Himself. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Robert Montgomery Bird
  5. "But not a word o' it; 'tis fairies' treasure, Which, but revealed, brings on the blabber's ruin." Massinger's " Fatal Dowry .
    — from Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer
  6. "Who's Pulitz?" "The blabber who keeps the Halbermond," replied Fischer irritably.
    — from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont
  7. Pal, we're blabber-mouths compared with your British Intelligence Service.
    — from Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sidney Bowen
  8. The main room of the saloon, into which the body had been brought from the back room, was a fog of smoke and a blabber of voices.
    — from The Heart of the Range by William Patterson White
  9. To BLABBER, v. n. to babble; to speak indistinctly.
    — from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24

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