blurt

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To say something suddenly and without thinking.

   She blurted out the secret before she could stop herself.

2. 2
   noun

   A sudden, unplanned remark.

   His angry blurt surprised the whole room.

Possibly imitative, or possibly an alteration of Middle English blurden (“to wail, cry out, threaten”), or possibly from Middle English *blerten, *blarten, *blorten, from Old English *blǣrettan, a frequentative or emphatic form of *blǣran (“to blear, bellow, roar”). If so, equivalent to blear + -t.

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