Obs. exc. dial. [A variant of BLEB, BLOB.] A bubble; a blister, a swelling.

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1656.  Trapp, Comm. Acts viii. 9. Such a blab the devil had blown up there, as a small wind may blow up a bubble.

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1861.  Ramsay, Remin., v. (ed. 18), 115. I’ve had … the blabs [note, Nettle-rash].

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  Hence Blab-lipped = BLABBER-LIPPED.

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c. 1430.  Chester Pl. (1818), 41. If any blabb-lipped boyes be in my way They shall rue it by mighty Mahowne.

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1591.  Harington, Orl. Fur., XLIII. cxxviii. Blab-lipt, beetle-browd, and bottle-nozed.

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