blather

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”). ==== Alternative forms ==== blether (Northern England, Scotland, Northern Ireland) ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -æðə(ɹ) ==== Verb ==== blather (third-person singular simple present blathers, present participle blathering, simple past and past participle blathered) (intransitive, derogatory) To talk rapidly without making much sense. (transitive, derogatory) To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Noun ==== blather (uncountable) (derogatory) Foolish or nonsensical talk. Synonyms: blither; see also Thesaurus:chatter ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== blather (plural blathers) Obsolete form of bladder. 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,[4] […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe A blather, where the windes imboweld were, === Anagrams === Barthel, Halbert, halbert