[The verb-stem used without const., as in ‘to go bang,’ ‘to cut bang off.’]
A. adv. Blurting, with a blurt.
1698. Vanbrugh, Prov. Wife, III. iii. When they come blurt out with a nasty thing in a play.
† B. interj. An exclamation of contempt: ‘pooh!’ ‘a fig for!’ See BLURT v. 2. Obs.
1592. Lyly, Midas, II. ii. 21. Blirt to you both.
1603. Middleton (title) (N.), Blurt, Master Constable.
1604. Dekker, Honest Wh., Wks. 1873, II. 22. Blurt on your sentences.
1606. in N. Riding Records (1883), I. 37. Will. Forde fined for using evill speaches to the Constable saying ‘Blirt, Mr. Constable.’
