Definition of Blattering

1. n. Senseless babble or boasting.

Definition of Blattering

1. Verb. (present participle of blatter) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Blattering

1. blatter [v] - See also: blatter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blattering

blatherskite
blatherskites
blatherstorm
blatherstorms
blatonite
blats
blatt
blattant
blatted
blatter
blatteration
blatterations
blattered
blatterer
blatterers
blattering (current term)
blatterite
blatteroon
blatteroons
blatters
blatting
blatts
blaubok
blauboks
blaud
blauded
blauding
blauds
blaw
blawed

Literary usage of Blattering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule (1891)
"Boasting, swaggering, bullying, blattering, vaporing, gasconade, ... Swaggering, boasting, bragging, braggart, blattering, pompous, assuming, important, ..."

2. Human Nature: A Monthly Record of Zoistic Science and Intelligence (1867)
"As far as I can judge, the French are a remarkably cleanly people ; there is scarcely a dirty, shabby, blattering man or woman to be seen. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"blattering, v. going about like a slattern. Slavers, sb. pi. water flowing from the mouth. Slay hook, sb. a small implement used by weavers ; in slang, ..."

4. The Bookman (1898)
"All in the sound of a high wind, broken now and then with a rain blattering even-down, and soaking through tartan and clo-dubh, we at it for dear life. ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1920)
"°-3°; (7) blattering [coarse] coal containing Catamites, replaced with pyrite, 0.08. This section certainly bears close resemblance to that of the Lubna ..."

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