blabber

1. 1.

   speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

   Synonymschatterpifflepalaverpratetittle-tattletwaddleclackmaunderprattleblabgibbertattlegabble

   Broadertalk

   Narrowerbabble

Other forms of blabber

plural

blabbers·

past tense

blabberred·

present participle

blabberring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blabber

What does blabber mean?

blabber means "one who reveals confidential information in return for money". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blabber?

blabber has 2 syllables: blab-ber. The stress falls on "blab". In IPA it is /ˈblæbɚ/.

What is another word for blabber?

Close synonyms include informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, chatter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blabber a common word?

blabber is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.