Meaning
1 senses(derogatory, uncountable)Foolish or nonsensical talk.
Gequatsche, Gequassel, Gelabere
базі́канняbazíkannja, балакани́наbalakanýna
foolish gibberish
Examples
13 sentencesEnough blather; get to the point.
What are you blathering on about?
She blathered at me for three hours running.
I'd rather get a root canal than listen to this blather.
I have better things to do than listen to this blather.
Translations
3 languagesУкраїнська
By meaning 1
foolish or nonsensical talk:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
foolish or nonsensical talk:
Origin
From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately,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”).
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Synonyms
1 synonymsClose in meaning
- foolish gibberish:blatherskite
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable