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Definition of Blather
1. Verb. To talk foolishly. "Sam and Sue blather"; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
Generic synonyms: Blab, Blabber, Chatter, Clack, Gabble, Gibber, Maunder, Palaver, Piffle, Prate, Prattle, Tattle, Tittle-tattle, Twaddle
Derivative terms: Babble, Babbler, Babbling, Blether
2. Noun. Foolish gibberish.
Definition of Blather
1. v. i. & t. To talk foolishly, or nonsensically.
2. n. Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl.
Definition of Blather
1. Verb. (pejorative) to talk rapidly without making much sense ¹
2. Noun. (pejorative) nonsensical or foolish talk ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blather
1. to talk foolishly [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blather
Literary usage of Blather
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"May Gravels round his blather wrench, Scotch Drink. /7. Wrench'd. Wrench'd his
dear country from the jaws of Ruin ! He, ruin'd, sink ! ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"... blister, or as E. smother, swore, Du. madder, moere, mud. The present forms
then should be classed with blether, blather, bladder, the origin of ..."
3. Pharmaceutical Patent Issues: Interpreting Gatt: Congressional Hearings by Orrin G. Hatch (2000)
"... 5,1996 Patent blather |~~v>r all the current populist assaults on world IH
trade deals, there would seem to he one aspect JL of the General Agreement on ..."
4. A Warwickshire Word-book: Comprising Obsolescent and Dialect Words by G. F. Northall (1896)
"Blench, si. A glimpse. Hal. Gloss. Blether [rhymes 'tether'], vn To cry, blubber.
Leic., N'hamp. (blather), Shrop. (blather), and elsewhere. ..."
5. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"blather. Mud or puddle so thin that it will splash when trod upon. ... Fur goodness
saake barn doan't tell her nowt for shool goa an' blather it awal ower. ..."
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