Thesaurus / blather
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Blather, bladdher; a person who utters vulgarly foolish boastful talk: used also as a verb—to blather.
ENGLISH AS WE SPEAK IT IN IRELANDP. W. JOYCEYou don't say so; now by gracious how they du blather out their words, dont they?
HIGHLIFE IN NEW YORK: A SERIES OF LETTERS TO MR. ZEPHARIAH SLICK,ANN S. STEPHENSRattleton spent much time on Blather's education—so did Rattleton's friends.
HARVARD STORIESWALDRON KINTZING POSTLet them blather on; they won't hurt you, as long as you know them for what they are.
THE WHIRLIGIG OF TIMEWAYLAND WELLS WILLIAMSBlather's most prominent virtue of all was devotion to his master, and his affection was fully returned.
HARVARD STORIESWALDRON KINTZING POSTTalking blather about unprovoked outrages, cannibals, and a menace of savages to the Republic, she started a war of extermination.
THE AMERICAN EGYPTCHANNING ARNOLDI invented a happaratus for extracting stone and gravel from the blather, without any operation at all.
MORNINGS AT BOW STREETJOHN WIGHTHip and Blather skitzen for the good and honorable Mayor, who always loves the people!'
FIDDLESF. HOPKINSON SMITHYet you blather about being 'practically engaged' to Doris Martin, a girl who wouldn't let you tie her shoe-lace.
THE POSTMASTER'S DAUGHTERLOUIS TRACYWill you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
CAPTAIN BLOODRAFAEL SABATINIWORDS RELATED TO BLATHER
- account
- babble
- back-fence talk
- blather
- blether
- 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
- allusion
- badinage
- banter
- blather
- bombast
- bunk
- buzz
- cant
- chat
- chatter
- chitchat
- conversation
- cry
- gab
- grapevine
- hearsay
- hint
- hot air
- idle talk
- innuendo
- insinuation
- jaw
- jive
- lip
- noise
- nonsense
- palaver
- persiflage
- prose
- racket
- raillery
- report
- rot
- rubbish
- rumble
- rumor
- scuttlebutt
- small talk
- trash
- tête-à-tête
- yarn
- babble
- bad-mouth
- bend one's ear
- blab
- blather
- blether
- chat
- chatter
- cut to pieces
- cut up
- dish
- hint
- imply
- insinuate
- intimate
- jaw
- noise
- prate
- prattle
- rattle on
- repeat
- report
- rumor
- schmoose
- spill the beans
- spread
- suggest
- talk
- talk idly
- tattle
- tell secrets
- tell tales
- tell tales out of school
- whisper
- wiggle-waggle
- absurdity
- babble
- balderdash
- baloney
- bananas
- blather
- bombast
- bull
- bunk
- bunkum
- claptrap
- drivel
- fatuity
- folly
- foolishness
- garbage
- gibberish
- hogwash
- hooey
- hot air
- idiocy
- imprudence
- inanity
- irrationality
- jazz
- jive
- ludicrousness
- madness
- mumbo jumbo
- palaver
- piffle
- poppycock
- prattle
- ranting
- rashness
- rigmarole
- rot
- rubbish
- scrawl
- scribble
- senselessness
- silliness
- soft soap
- stupidity
- thoughtlessness
- tomfoolery
- trash
- tripe
- twaddle
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.