blabtongue

noun

Etymology

From blab + tongue.

  1. inherited from *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s
  2. inherited from *tungǭ
  3. inherited from *tungā
  4. inherited from tunge
  5. inherited from tongue
  6. compounded as blabtongue — “blab + tongue

Definitions

  1. An informant.

    • Report, the blab-tongue of those tell-tale times, / That rather magnifies than lessens crimes,
  2. A gossip.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for blabtongue. 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