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BLABBED

Definition: BLABBED

BLABBED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Blab

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BLABBED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references)

Synonym: BLABBED

Synonym by domain: Biotechnology of Lactic Acid Bacteria (medicine).

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Use in Literature: BLABBED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

For the first few days, the Thenardiers, in their spite, had blabbed the story about.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: BLABBED

"BLABBED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLABBED" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BLABBED

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  blabbed

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: BLABBED

Language Translations for "BLABBED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

geschwatzt (babbled), ausgeplaudert (divulged). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abbedblay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BLABBED

Misspellings

"BLABBED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Balbec, bilobbed, bilobed, bleibet, flabbed, slabbed. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BLABBED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: babbled.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-b-d-e-l"

-1 letter: babble, dabble.

-2 letters: babel, baled, blade.

-3 letters: abbe, abed, able, babe, bade, bald, bale, bead, blab, blae, bleb, bled, dale, deal, lade, lead.

-4 letters: alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bel, dab, dal, deb, del, ebb, eld, lab, lad, lea, led.

-5 letters: ab, ad, ae, al, ba, be, de, ed, el, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-b-d-e-l"
 

+1 letter: bedabble, brabbled.

 

+2 letters: bedabbled, bedabbles, blabbered.

 

+3 letters: bedabbling, bubblehead.

 

+4 letters: bubbleheads.

 

+5 letters: bubbleheaded.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BLABBED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 4C 41 42 42 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .-..    .-    -...    -...    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001100 01000001 01000010 01000010 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65 &#66 &#66 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041 0042 0042 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36463536363938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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