blabbermouth
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[edit]blabbermouth (plural blabbermouths)
- (informal) A gossip.
- If it weren't for that blabbermouth Sally, the principal would never have known we did it.
- (informal) A person who talks excessively.
- Synonym: chatterbox
- (aviation) A kind of foam-dispensing nozzle used in firefighting at airports.
- 1964, Civic Administration, volume 16, page 9:
- Two handlines are capable of 240 gpm and an undertruck "blabbermouth" nozzle can sweep the ground ahead at 240 gpm.
- 1972, ICAO Bulletin, volume 27, page x:
- The monitor is fitted with a blabbermouth (variable nozzle) to enable jet-spray patterns to be obtained at will.
- 1983, David F. Rider, Jane's Airport Equipment, page 210:
- A manually operated monitor is provided complete with blabbermouth to deliver foam solution at a rate of 2(KX) lures a minute at 10-5 bar, to a maximum jet range of 46 metres […]
Translations
[edit]gossip
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chatterbox — see chatterbox