Word Meanings - LAB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prate; to gossip; to babble; to blab. Chaucer.

Related words: (words related to LAB)

• BABBLEMENT
  Babble. Hawthorne.
• PRATER
  One who prates. Shak.
• GOSSIPRY
  1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
• BABBLER
  A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
• BABBLE
  It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter;
• BABBLERY
  Babble. Sir T. More
• GOSSIPY
  Full of, or given to, gossip.
• PRATE
  To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.
• GOSSIPER
  One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.
• PRATEFUL
  Talkative. W. Taylor.
• GOSSIPREDE
  The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
• GOSSIP
  baptism, a relation by a religious obligation, AS. godsibb, fr. god + sib alliance, relation; akin to G. sippe, Goth. sibja, and also to 1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place
• CONSTUPRATE
  To ravish; to debauch. Burton.
• STUPRATE
  To ravish; to debauch. Heywood.
• SUPRATEMPORAL
  Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.
• OUTBABBLE
  To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. Milton.
• BIBBLE-BABBLE
  Idle talk; babble. Shak.
• CAPRATE
  A salt of capric acid.