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Video: Balabol is: the definition and origin of the word
2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:48
In colloquial and often literary speech, curious words and expressions periodically sound, which eventually become winged. One of these frequently encountered terms is "balabol". Each of us probably heard this word more than once in childhood. It has not gone out of use, they continue to be actively used in modern speech.
What is "balabol"?
We are used to using this word automatically, without thinking about the semantic load. Often we use it to describe a very talkative person or children of the "why" age. And there is a good deal of truth in this.
The fact is that the word "balabol" can be used for both positive and negative characteristics of the interlocutor. Often on the playground you can hear in the conversation of mothers: "My baby is such a balabol, he talks about something all the time." In this case, it means that the child is just very talkative, negative overtonesmissing.
However, in addition to the definition of "talker", this word is also often applied to a person who not only speaks incessantly, but does not put almost any semantic load into his words, provides false information, makes empty promises. They also talk about such people "chatterbox", "chatterbox", "trapper", "idle talker", they use many other unflattering synonyms for the word "balabol".
Origin story
There are several versions regarding the etymology of the word "balabol". This is both the origin from the Tatar word for a rattle or a small bell, which was used to decorate dresses, and the version that this word came into Russian from the Latin language in the meaning of "stutter".
By the way, in his "Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language" V. I. Dahl defines the words "balabol" and "balabolka" as a small pendant or trinket, for example, for a watch.
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