Obs. or dial. Also 4–5 labbe, 8 labb. [Belongs to LAB v.] A blab, tell-tale.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Miller’s T., 323. I nam no labbe Ne though I seye I am not lief to gabbe.
c. 1422. Hoccleve, Jereslaus’s Wife, 542. I neuere was yit of my tonge a labbe.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 282/2. Labbe, or he that can kepe no counsel, anubicus.
1746. Exmoor Scolding (E. D. S.), 25. Ees dedent thenk tha had’st a be zich a Labb o’ tha Tongue.
1847. Halliwell, Lab, a tittle-tattle; a blab. Also called a lab-o-the-tongue. West.
