blurt

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After a buzz: If consulting occurs, the consulting is then classified as a blurt as in previous rule, and 4 penalty points will be awarded to the opposing team.

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  1. transitive verb To utter suddenly and impulsively: blurt a confession.

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  • Diane found herself about to blurt, "And that's with a case he's been ordered off of!" —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • He stared out of bleared eyes as Doc and Monk came back into the house He tried to blurt, "What...how Doc said, "You fellows should have checked more carefully on the girl's handwriting before leaving that note Monk indicated a room across the hallway. —  090 - Tunnel Terror
  • Then, even more embarrassingly, in his surprise he started to blurt the name out: “Emil Gross Yes ,” Chase said, so quickly and with such intensity and such a sudden feral glare that Sir Denis blinked and clamped his teeth shut. —  Kahawa
  • Don't blurt, you clotbrain Billings regarded him measuringly. —  Asimov's Science Fiction - 1977_02(002)Summer
  • Each change under full throttle is accompanied by a small "blurt" sound, as unburned petrol escapes into the exhaust system, only to explode in that heat.
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blurt:   blurted ·  blurting
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably imitative.

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  1. = Scots blirt (see blirt); apparently imitative, with the initial sound as in blow, blast, blash, bluster, etc., and the final sound as in spurt, spirt, squirt, etc.
  2. from blurt, v.
 

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