Blab vs Grumble - What's the difference?
blab | grumble |
(ambitransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
* Tennyson
(onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.
The sound made by a hungry stomach.
A complaint.
To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.
* {{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Terry C. Johnston
, title=Dance on the Wind
, page=15
, passage=It made his stomach grumble in protest to think the mule was eating, and here he was worrying about her with an empty belly of his own.}}
To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.
To utter in a grumbling fashion.
* 2001 , Harry Willcox Pfanz, Gettysburg — the first day?
As verbs the difference between blab and grumble
is that blab is (ambitransitive) to tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion while grumble is to make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.As nouns the difference between blab and grumble
is that blab is one who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper while grumble is (onomatopoeia) a low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.blab
English
Verb
- And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.
Synonyms
* See alsogrumble
English
Noun
(en noun)- That whiner is never without a grumble to share.
Derived terms
* grumblyVerb
(grumbl)- The distant thunder grumbles .
- He grumbles about the food constantly, but has yet to learn to cook.
- He grumbled that there was no grain "in the country" and that people were talking instead of working to provide it.