blather
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blather¹
- /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/ UK
Rhymes with -æðə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”).
verb blathers · blathering · blathered · blether
- To talk rapidly without making much sense. “There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.
- To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way. Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!
noun blether
- Foolish or nonsensical talk. That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;
blather²
noun blathers
- Obsolete form of bladder.bladder 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes, […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe A blather, where the windes imboweld were,
