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Blabs vs Blags - What's the difference?

blabs | blags |

As verbs the difference between blabs and blags

is that blabs is third-person singular of blab while blags is third-person singular of blag.

blabs

English

Verb

(head)
  • (blab)

    • blab

    English

    Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
  • * Tennyson
    • And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

    • Related terms

    * blabber * blabbermouth * blabby * blubber

    blags

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (blag)

    • blag

    English

    Verb

    (blagg)
  • (British, informal, transitive) To obtain (something) for free, particularly by guile or persuasion.
  • (British, informal) More specifically, to obtain confidential information by impersonation or other deception.
    • The newspaper is accused of blagging details of Gordon Brown's flat purchase from his solicitors.
  • (British, informal, transitive) To beg, to cadge.
    • Can I blag a fag?
  • (UK, informal, transitive) To steal.
  • (Polari) To pick up someone.
  • To persuade.
    • He's blagged his way into many a party.
  • To deceive, to perpetrate a hoax on.

    • Synonyms

    * pretext

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
    • A good blag to get into a nightclub is to walk in carrying a record box.
  • An armed robbery.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (British, informal) Fake, not genuine.
    • You’re wearing a blag designer shirt!

    Derived terms

    * blagger, Blagger

    External links

    * blag] at [http://septicscompanion.com The Septic's Companion: A British Slang Dictionary ----