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† Blabber a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. † Blabber a. Also 5 blabyr, 6–7 blaber. [First in comb. blabyr-lyppyd, in the Catholicon 1483, the Prompt. c. 1440 having the earlier babbyr-lyppyd, used also by Langland 1377 (see BABBER-LIPPED). But there was also a 15–17th-c. form blab-lipped (see BLAB sb.2), which is of more simple explanation: cf. BLOB, BLOBBER, BLUBBER, BUBBLE, all expressing the sense of swelling or inflation.] Swollen, protruding; said of the lips (e.g., of negroes), and sometimes the cheeks.

1 1552.  Huloet, Blabber lyppes, dimissa labra.

2 1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 530. The divels of Crowland, with their blabber lips [labiis pendentibus].

3 a. 1627.  Middleton, Sp. Gipsy, IV. iii. She has full blabber cheeks.

4 1687.  Shadwell, Juvenal, 108. What ugly blabber-lipps had he!

5 1833.  Coleridge, in Fraser’s Mag., VII. 177. A waxy face and a blabber lip. [In Poems, III. 87 (1834), ‘blubber lip.’]

6   Hence Blabber-lipped ppl. a.

7 [1377, 1440, 1607; see BABBER-LIPPED.]

8 1483.  Cath. Angl., 33. Blabyrlyppyd, broccus, labrosus.

9 c. 1485.  Digby Myst., III. 927. Ye … blabyr-lyppyd bycchys.

10 1601.  Holland, Pliny, XI. xxxvii. Others againe who are blabber-lipped are named in Latine Labiones.

11 1653.  Greaves, Seraglio, 101. The most … blabber-lipped, and flat nosed girles that may be had through all Egypt.

12 1704.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4034/4. Run away … a short Negro Man … blabber Lip’d … long Heel’d.

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