blurt
verb/ˈblɜːt/UK/ˈblɝt/US
Etymology
Possibly imitative, or possibly an alteration of Middle English blurden (“to wail, cry out, threaten”), or possibly from Middle English *blerten, *blarten, *blorten, from Old English *blǣrettan, a frequentative or emphatic form of *blǣran (“to blear, bellow, roar”). If so, equivalent to blear + -t.
- inherited from *blǣrettan✻
- inherited from *blerten✻
Definitions
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out.
- Please think about your reply and don't just blurt out the first thing that comes to mind.
- "Who are you?!" he blurted into the woman's palm, and she shook it off in obvious disgust, wiping spittle onto his D-class uniform.
To spurt.
- the sound of rusty water blurting from the faucet in the kitchen
- Blurted tea onto the monitor at FAL being "satisfying" and Brine's reaction . . .
An abrupt outburst.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for blurt. 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