blatherskite

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After New York Freelance Author Carl Bakal published his celebrated antigun tract, The Right to Bear Arms, N.R.A. members wrote him by the hundreds; among the friendlier salutations were "poltroon," "blatherskite" and "Communist and pervert."

From Time Magazine Archive

Most of those views, like his language�"marplot," "whilst," "burthen," "blatherskite," "milch cows" �have a 19th century texture.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1922, there died Senator Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, able blatherskite, onetime running mate of Presidential runner-up William Jennings Bryan.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the larrikin he will not be able to discover a new species, but only an old one met elsewhere, and variously called loafer, rough, tough, bummer, or blatherskite, according to his geographical distribution.

From Following the Equator, Part 2 by Twain, Mark

"There's men out there I thought I could reckon on like I'd tie to my own grandson, and they're standing with their mouths open, whooping on that old blatherskite."

From The Ramrodders A Novel by Day, Holman