词汇 | blab |
词源 | blab. Blab, first recorded by Chaucer, is supposed to be a shortening of the earlier blabber. Blabber in turn, is said to de- rive from blaeberen, an echoic word that imitates the sound of blabbering. It means, of course, chatter, or loose talk, or to chatter, to spill out information. |
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