verb (vagrants’).—To talk, to PATTER (q.v.).
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 339. Of professional beggars there are two kinds—those who ‘do it on the BLOB’ (by word of mouth), and those who do it by ‘screeving’ that is, by petitions and letters.
1861. WHYTE-MELVILLE, Good for Nothing, xxvi. ‘Five minutes more and we shall run into him,’ he shouts, sitting well back on his horse, and urging him to his extreme pace, ‘when he BLOBS like that he’s getting beat. See how Canvas sticks to him, and the yellow dog hangs back, waiting for the turn.’
