Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BLATHER

Blath "er (blath "er ), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Blathered; p. pr. &vb. n. Blathering.] [Written also blether. ] [Icel. blaðra. Cf. Blatherskite. ]

 

Defn: To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. G. Eliot.

 

BLATHER

BLATHER Blath "er, n. [Written also blether. ]

 

Defn: Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. Hall Caine.

 

BLATHERSKITE

BLATHERSKITE Blath "er *skite, n.

 

Defn: A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] Barllett.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

blather

blath er |ˈblaT͟Hər ˈblæðər |(also blether |ˈbleT͟Hər | or blither |ˈbliT͟Hər |) ▶verb [ no obj. ] talk long-windedly without making very much sense: she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death | (as noun blathering ) : now stop your blathering and get back to work. ▶noun long-winded talk with no real substance. ORIGIN late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect ): from Old Norse blathra ‘talk nonsense, ’ from blathr ‘nonsense. ’

 

blatherskite

blath er skite |ˈblaT͟Hərˌskīt ˈblæðərskaɪt | ▶noun a person who talks at great length without making much sense. • foolish talk; nonsense: politicians get away all the time with their blatherskite. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from blather + skite, a Scottish derogatory term adopted into American colloquial speech during the American Revolution, from the Scottish song Maggie Lauder, by F. Semphill, which was popular with American troops.

 

Oxford Dictionary

blather

blather |ˈblaðə |(also blither or chiefly Scottish blether ) ▶verb [ no obj. ] talk long-windedly without making very much sense: she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death | (as noun blathering ) : now stop your blathering and get back to work. ▶noun [ mass noun ] long-winded talk with no real substance. ORIGIN late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect ): from Old Norse blathra ‘talk nonsense ’, from blathr ‘nonsense ’.

 

blatherskite

blatherskite |ˈblaðəskʌɪt |(also bletherskate ) ▶noun chiefly N. Amer. a person who talks at great length without making much sense. • [ mass noun ] foolish talk; nonsense. ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from blather + skite, a Scots derogatory term adopted into American colloquial speech during the War of Independence from the Scottish song Maggie Lauder, by F. Semphill, which was popular with American troops.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

blather

blather verb he just blathered about his old girlfriends: prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, go on, run on, rattle on, yap, jabber, maunder, ramble, burble, drivel, blabber, gab; informal yak, yatter, yammer, talk a blue streak. ▶noun mindless blather: prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, prating, gabble, jabber, rambling; informal yatter, twaddle, gobbledygook.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

blather

blather verb he just blathered on and on: prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle on /away, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel; informal yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter; Brit. informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle; Scottish & Irish informal slabber; Austral. /NZ informal mag; archaic twaddle, clack, twattle. ▶noun he has to write about all the blather at the town council: prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling; nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap; informal yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter, rot, tripe, twaddle, hogwash, baloney, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, dribble; Brit. informal wittering, nattering, chuntering, cobblers, codswallop, stuff and nonsense, tosh, cack; Scottish & N. English informal havers; N. Amer. informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce; informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee; vulgar slang shit, bullshit, horseshit, crap, bollocks, balls; Austral. /NZ vulgar slang bulldust; archaic clack, twattle.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

blather

blath er /blǽðə r /動詞 自動詞 «…について » むだ口をたたく, ばか話をする «about » .名詞 U たわごと, ばか話 .