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]).
- 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 - Your old sweetheart an’t far off, and she’s a blabber.’
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens - 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 - 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 - "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 - "Who's Pulitz?" "The blabber who keeps the Halbermond," replied Fischer irritably.
— from The Man Without a Memory by Arthur W. Marchmont - Pal, we're blabber-mouths compared with your British Intelligence Service.
— from Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal by Robert Sidney Bowen - 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 - To BLABBER, v. n. to babble; to speak indistinctly.
— from Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 24