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Definition of Blether
1. Verb. To talk foolishly. "Sam and Sue blether"; "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, Blather
2. Noun. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.
Generic synonyms: Cackle, Chatter, Yack, Yak, Yakety-yak
Derivative terms: Prate, Prattle
Definition of Blether
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of blather) ¹
2. Verb. (alternative spelling of blather) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blether
1. to blather [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: blather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blether
Literary usage of Blether
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... by his blether. Meanwhile, ' the duty nearest hand ' is to get on the stair-
carpet that he may run up and down more softly. LETTER 58. ..."
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. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Oliver Heslop (1892)
"blether, a bladder, a purse, the bagpipe. " Rattlin' like empty blethers. ...
From blether and Skate, in Scotch used contemptuously. ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1875)
"blether, sb. nonsense, emptiness of meaning; that which is noisy and senseless.
... Eh ! what a blether-ycd thae art: when wilto pve l8'5' o'er talkie'. ..."
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