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blabbermouth

noun
/ˈblæb.ə(ɹ)ˌmaʊθ/UK

Etymology

From blabber + mouth.

  1. inherited from mouthen
  2. derived from *ment-✻ — “to chew; jaw, mouth”
  3. inherited from *munþaz✻ — “mouth”
  4. inherited from *munþ✻
  5. inherited from mūþ
  6. inherited from mouth
  7. compounded as blabbermouth — “blabber + mouth”

Definitions

  1. A gossip.

    • If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it.

  2. A person who talks excessively.

  3. A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.

    • Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm.
    • The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.
    • A manually operated monitor is provided complete with blabbermouth to deliver foam solution at a rate of 2(KX) lures a minute at 10-5 bar, to a maximum jet range of 46 metres […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blabbermouth. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA