blather

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But nowhere in all their blather is there any evidence to show that knowing someone better necessarily makes them more likeable.

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  1. intransitive verb To talk nonsensically.
  2. noun Nonsensical talk.

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  • I'm still convinced there are Republicans who don't buy any of Rush's blather -- if their party wants to stop losing elections, they'll need to speak up and reassert their strength. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • ** Stay tuned, more important news to follow when I get some more information dug out of the SD cracks and crevices covered with political blather -- Doug Wiken —  Dakota Today
  • And while much academic discourse in my opinion is blather, there is much that comes out of the university system that helps commerce. —  The Real Estate Bloggers
  • Amidst the opinion's 69 pages of blather, there are two key assertions (and they're nothing more than that): —  The Moderate Voice
  • But nowhere in all their blather is there any evidence to show that knowing someone better necessarily makes them more likeable. —  The British National Party
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Old Norse bladhra; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Scots also blether, = Icelandic bladhra, talk inarticulately, talk nonsense (bladhr, nonsense), = German dial. bladdern, talk nonsense; partly imitative, and the same as blatter, q. v.
  2. Scots also blether; cf. Icelandic bladhr, nonsense; from the verb.
 

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