blabbermouth
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈblæb.ə(ɹ)ˌmaʊθ/
blabbermouth (plural blabbermouths)
- (informal) A gossip.
- If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it.
- (informal) A person who talks excessively.
- Synonyms: chatterbox
- (aviation) A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.
- 1964, Civic Administration (volume 16, page 9)
- Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm.
- 1972, ICAO Bulletin (volume 27, page x)
- The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.
- 1983, David F. Rider, Jane's Airport Equipment (page 210)
- 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 […]
- 1964, Civic Administration (volume 16, page 9)
- Russian: болту́н
- Spanish: bocazas
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