Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Blurt"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blurt \Blurt\ (bl[^u]rt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blurted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Blurting}.] [Cf. {Blare}.]
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge
inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words
which afterward they forced to eat. --Hakewill.
{To blurt at}, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blurt
v : utter impulsively; "He blurted out the secret" [syn: {blurt
out}, {blunder out}, {ejaculate}]
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