Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch form of
bladder . - Same as
blather . - noun Same as
blather .
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- noun Alternative spelling of
blather . - verb Alternative spelling of
blather .
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- verb to talk foolishly
- noun idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
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Examples
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Thanks, asianHusseingrrl "that one" MN, I know that & saw it - I just want a HUGE pic of it at the actual event … - otherwise I'll get a bunch of 'blether' from the pwwnbn … … ….
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He babbled, carrying on like some serving wench with good gossip, unable to stop his own blether, until she ducked her shoulder away from his touch.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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I'd tweeted of my trip and, knowing them from WFCs in the past, ended up arranging for beer and a blether on Friday, and to see the show together on Thursday.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Anyways, we made our way back to the festival by way of a bar, for a wee beer and a blether, and then a supermarket, so's I could pick up some beer for the room party I was reckoning as a necessity that night, given that the hotel bar in Novotel closed at half twelve the previous night.
Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009
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There was beer and blether and more blether and more beer.
Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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I canna but believe Richard was of a mind to frighten you and nothing more with all his blether about marriage.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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Sleek and smart, those wee black eyes dart from side to side and while others blether and blunder he just keeps to his game and he's always witty.
Alex Salmond: Scotland's new superhero | Observer profile 2011
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There was beer and blether and more blether and more beer.
Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009
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The four of you lads can stay and blether on for as long as you like.
Healing the Highlander Melissa Mayhue 2011
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Anyways, we made our way back to the festival by way of a bar, for a wee beer and a blether, and then a supermarket, so's I could pick up some beer for the room party I was reckoning as a necessity that night, given that the hotel bar in Novotel closed at half twelve the previous night.
Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009
sonofgroucho commented on the word blether
Didn't realise that this is a variant of blather.
March 20, 2007
MaryW commented on the word blether
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 324May 30, 2016