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BLABBING

Definition: BLABBING

BLABBING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Blab

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BLABBING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Usage Frequency: BLABBING

"BLABBING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BLABBING" is used about 3 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 (-ing form)100%3202,518

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

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Modern Translations: BLABBING

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

Finnish

  

kantelu (complaint, talebearing). (various references)

   

German

  

schwatzend (gabbling, pattering, twaddling), ausplaudernd (divulging, peaching), ausplappernd. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abbingblay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: BLABBING

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

garrula. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: BLABBING

Misspellings

"BLABBING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Babbidge, blebbing, blubing, Brabbin. (additional references)

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

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Anagrams: BLABBING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: babbling.

Words within the letters "a-b-b-b-g-i-l-n"

-2 letters: baling.

-3 letters: algin, align, binal, blain, liang, ligan, linga.

-4 letters: agin, anil, bail, bang, bani, bibb, blab, blin, gain, glia, glib, lain, lang, ling, nail.

-5 letters: ail, ain, alb, ani, bag, bal, ban, bib, big, bin, gab, gal, gan, gib, gin, lab, lag, lib, lin, nab, nag, nib, nil.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-b-g-i-l-n"
 

+1 letter: babblings, brabbling.

 

+2 letters: bedabbling, blabbering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BLABBING


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

42 4C 41 42 42 49 4E 47

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 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#76 &#65 &#66 &#66 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 004C 0041 0042 0042 0049 004E 0047

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

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

3646353636434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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