blather
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Is blather a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, derogatory) To talk rapidly without making much sense.Examples: "“There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke."; "It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows."; "On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words."derogatoryintransitive
2. (transitive, derogatory) To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.Examples: "Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!"; "[…] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all."derogatorytransitive
noun (English)
1. (derogatory) Foolish or nonsensical talk.Examples: "That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;"; "Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?"; "With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians."Synonyms: blither, babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blatherderogatoryuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary