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Lab vs Blab - What's the difference?

lab | blab |

As nouns the difference between lab and blab

is that lab is a laboratory while blab is one who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

As an abbreviation Lab

is labrador a breed of dog.

As a verb blab is

to tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.

lab

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • (colloquial) A laboratory
  • (colloquial) A Labrador retriever
    • Derived terms
    * lab rat

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A telltale; a blabber.
    • (Chaucer)

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    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