[f. as prec. + -ING2.]
a. Bursting forth in short sudden puffs. b. Making abrupt unexpected utterances; impulsively communicative.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Drama Exile, Poems I. 87. Shall the horse’s nostrils steam the blurting breath.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, III. xiv. (1880), II. 156. He would be suddenly blurting and affectionate. Ibid. (1872), Middlem., V. 187. The blurting, rallying tone with which he spoke.
