Crossword clues for blithering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
blithering \blithering\ adj. talking incoherently; as, a blithering idiot.
Syn: jabbering.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, present participle adjective (from the first typically with idiot) from blither (v.) "to talk nonsense." From 1872 as a verbal noun.
Wiktionary
talking incoherently; jabbering. n. Incoherent or foolish talk. v
(present participle of blither English)
WordNet
adj. talking idly or incoherently; "blithering (or blathering) idiot"; "jabbering children"; "gabbling housewives"; "a babbling hospital inmate" [syn: blathering, jabbering, babbling]
Usage examples of "blithering".
Cowboy turns his own radar off to discourage homing missiles and navigates on his visual sensors alone, his mind making lightning decisions, neurotransmitters clattering against his headswitches like hail, the interface encompassing the whole flashing universe, the panzer and its systems, the corn thundering under the armored skirts, the blithering chaff, the two hostile privateers burning out of the night.
Away from home, liberated from my responsibility for meals, my unexecuted calculations steal into my dreams like engine run-on and leave me blithering with this diminished store of nurture and the fact of my unpreparedness.
I remember now that I was blithering to myself rather inanely just before I went under.
Some crime or other was committed somewhere tonight, and for some blithering reason they seem to think I was mixed up in it.
The merest hint of Elizabeth in danger, and he turned into a blithering idiot.
The corridor went straight from the transporter tube to the trauma center, and it was awash in a sea of blithering humans and their allies, all convinced that they needed medical attention.
They were sitting there sweating, waiting the breath to do the next round with the machines, and Towney was blithering again.
Edgewise is traveling with his Wife, who, when she must, regards him with a Phiz that speaks of the great amounts of her time given over, in a philosophickal way, to classifying the numerous forms of human idiot, beyond the common or Blithering sort, with which all are familiar, the Bloody-Minded I.
Something like this:fi0The Duke of Fortezza Quite frequently gets a Nimpulse to go blithering off on to the blind, But the Duchess starts bimbling And wambling and wimbling And threatens to wallop his ducal behind.
One werewolf turning those military goons into blithering idiots, wandering around the woods, getting picked off like blonds in a horror flick.
Lazarus, it's just the inside track you need-if you weren't such a blithering idiot!