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Blatter

Blatter \Blat"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blattered.] [L. blaterare to babble: cf. F. blat['e]rer to bleat.] To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [Archaic] ``The rain blattered.''
--Jeffrey.

They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully.
--Latimer.

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blatter

n. blather vb. To blather

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Blatter

Blatter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Ethelbert Blatter (1877–1934), Swiss Jesuit priest and botanist
  • Heinz Blatter (born 1971), Swiss ski mountaineer
  • Sepp Blatter (born 1936), former president of FIFA
  • Silvio Blatter (born 1946), Swiss writer

Usage examples of "blatter".

Enid Blatter had borne their cavorting for half a dozen weekends through the summer.

Mrs Blatter avoided him as he staggered towards the door, and she ran towards the altar.

The stone was the statue of a woman, a Venus grosser than Mrs Blatter, her belly swelling with children, tits like mountains, cunt a valley that began at her navel and gaped to the world.

Ron stepped off the altar and began to run down the aisle, pushing Mrs Blatter, the policeman and the lunatic aside.

Miss Dawn Astra better write-ups in the blatter he works for than he ever gives Miss Katharine Cornell, or even Mr.

His voice was hoarse, little more than a whisper against the blatter of the wind.

But the gale had not finished, and I was awakened to the rattle of windows and the blatter of sleet on the roof.

The rain blattered, the windows clattered, the shopshutters flapped, pigs from the lum-heads came rattling down like thunder-claps, and the skies were dismal both with cloud and carry.

Gusts blattered at the fire, the meat sizzling and Mukunga talking fast in Swahili, gesturing and laughing.

I heard two or three get into such a state that they started blattering off and wanted no more of it.

Half an hour later it was dark, the wind blattering down from the heights and ragged gaps in the clouds through which I was able to catch a glimpse of the stars.

Amid the cackle of geese and blattering of lambs, Haelf welcomed them, and his household at once began preparing a royal feast.

Gusts blattered at the fire, the meat sizzling and Mukunga talking fast in Swahili, gesturing and laughing.

I knew every creak the old frame house made, the rush of gas flame igniting under the hot water heater, the tin crack of the stove cooling after I'd boiled water for tea, the pickup that blattered down the road each night at ten thirty.

Russell swore and steered intently for a few seconds as the sky blattered at them.