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Definition of Blathering
1. blather [v] - See also: blather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blathering
Literary usage of Blathering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"What's tuh blathering abart ? " BLATHER. Mud or puddle so thin that it will splash
... A blathering tongue" is in the head of a person who makes a point of ..."
2. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"... meanness to ask me why didn'tI stay on my ranch and hold possession when I
see him a-coming! Why didn'tI stay on it, the blathering lunatic—by George, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"She always was a blathering woman. So Skelton (Colyn Clout, 65. 66), " Thus eche
of other Mother, The tone against the tother;" and as a noun, 774, ..."
4. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"Mr. Caine registers himself as a blathering rhapsodist, flatulent with the wind
of doctrine and giddy with self-conceit. It was long ago observed by ..."
5. Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 by James Anthony Froude (1882)
"... more especially after all the blathering stuff he had uttered on the matter
for years past. I still read his Magazine palaver with an affectionate ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"The Scotchman stopped and watched it disappear. " Yon auld Oliver has mair gude
sense," he said to himself, " than a' these blathering ..."
7. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"What's tuh blathering abart ? " BLATHER. Mud or puddle so thin that it will splash
... A blathering tongue" is in the head of a person who makes a point of ..."
8. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"... meanness to ask me why didn'tI stay on my ranch and hold possession when I
see him a-coming! Why didn'tI stay on it, the blathering lunatic—by George, ..."
9. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"She always was a blathering woman. So Skelton (Colyn Clout, 65. 66), " Thus eche
of other Mother, The tone against the tother;" and as a noun, 774, ..."
10. A Guide to the Best Fiction in English by William Winter, George Saintsbury, Ernest Albert Baker (1913)
"Mr. Caine registers himself as a blathering rhapsodist, flatulent with the wind
of doctrine and giddy with self-conceit. It was long ago observed by ..."
11. Thomas Carlyle: A History of the First Forty Years of His Life, 1795-1835 by James Anthony Froude (1882)
"... more especially after all the blathering stuff he had uttered on the matter
for years past. I still read his Magazine palaver with an affectionate ..."
12. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"The Scotchman stopped and watched it disappear. " Yon auld Oliver has mair gude
sense," he said to himself, " than a' these blathering ..."
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