blethering

The next instant they had started forward on a run, blethering the news of water back along the dim, heaving line.

I won'er how I could be sae silly as to sit sae lang willy-waing wi' you about that blethering bodie, James Kilspinnie.

Ulster and Scotch form blether, blethering: Burns speaks of stringing 'blethers up in rhyme.'

And instead of bland and blethering Serenissimus I was received by Scheidemann blandly, blandishingly serene.