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blether
noun as in gossip
Strong matches
noun as in talebearing
Weak matches
- account
- babble
- back-fence talk
- blather
- buzz
- calumny
- chatter
- chitchat
- chronicle
- clothesline
- conversation
- cry
- defamation
- dirty laundry
- dirty linen
- dirty wash
- earful
- gossipry
- grapevine
- hearsay
- idle talk
- injury
- malicious talk
- meddling
- news
- prate
- prattle
- report
- rumor
- scandal
- scuttlebutt
- slander
- small talk
- story
- tale
- talk
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
- whispering campaign
- wire
- word
verb as in gossip
verb as in tittle-tattle
Example Sentences
He replied, Och, we just boomed yon stone boxes until they stopped their blether, and then went to the next one.
Her faither's ga' blether's fu' o' ga' stanes, or as my faither ca'es them, ga' nuts—a decided icterus or jaundice.
As if the holy Psalmist thought of rattling rhymes in blether, like his own silly clinkum-clankum that he calls verse!
Ulster and Scotch form blether, blethering: Burns speaks of stringing 'blethers up in rhyme.'
In the same way Mr. Philip can blether to his silly heart's content and he'll never prove that I'm a bold girl.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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