blather
/ˈblæðə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.25 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke."
- "It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows."
- "On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words."
- "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!"
- "[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all."
- "That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;"
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: bletheren, blaðra
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/