Crossword clues for blather
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blather \Blath"er\ (bl[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Blathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blathering.] [Written also blether.] [Icel. bla[eth]r
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Cf. Blatherskite.] To talk foolishly, or nonsensically, or concerning matters of no consequence.
--G. Eliot.Syn: babble, smatter, blether, blither.
Blather \Blath"er\, n. [Written also blether.]
Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl.
--Hall Caine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, Scottish, probably from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse blaðra "mutter, wag the tongue," perhaps of imitative origin. Related: Blathered; blathering.
1787, from blather (v.).
Wiktionary
n. (context pejorative English) nonsensical or foolish talk vb. (context pejorative English) To talk rapidly without making much sense.
WordNet
n. foolish gibberish [syn: blatherskite]
Usage examples of "blather".
Here we have the rather banal world of New Age talk-show blather as the public face of a very real and bloody attempt to reshape the world.
Whether or not Fagin was right, he had no time to stand here and blather about it.
In short, I may not be telling it right and perhaps cannot, but the sense of the blather was precisely of that sort.
Dexter found that after a long day of booze and blather, his party energy had evaporated, nor had he reached the state of sotted stupidity where it was possible to believe that he could prop himself up with more.
Mary McKay only by her general reputation, and given that Amanda had put her forward, he had expected the usual New Age Earth Mother Goddess Worshiping Off the Male Chauvinist Pig vibrational blather, which, knowing George, would serve as springboard material for diverse diverting digressions into the wildest of blue yonders.
Two wizards blathered apologies to Candlemas while two maids undressed him.
But as always, his brother failed to heed sound advice and blathered on.
I assume you meant plans that involve something other than sitting at a table and blathering on and on till the cows come home.
Ah, Little Fellow, as I look into your flawless eyes, even as I stand here blathering away, an idea is coming into this great, fat brain of mine.
Baseball offered a comfortable seat to the polysyllabic wonders who quoted dead authors and blathered on about the poetry of motion.
It is coming from the private room where that lewd-eyed, blathering, pinchy old bastard has just been put down for his nap today.
The characterization of Giuliani as a heartless brute vanished into thin air like the blather it always was.
You might have discovered that none of those things have ever been proved, that I've never been convicted of any of them or even brought to trial, that there isn't the single ghost of a charge he could bring against me today, and that I'm known to be getting pretty damn tired of having every dumb cop in creation ringing my doorbell and making me listen to a lot of addlepated blather that he can't prove.
Kalle's assistant, a older man in red robes named Gibor, blathered, ".
I watched him grow up," she blathered, turning a sickly smile on Elayne.