blatherskite

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And blessed with the gift of rapid response blatherskite, doggone it.

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  1. noun A babbling, foolish person.
  2. noun Blather.

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  • Until Republican spokesmen reject the trap set for them by unscrupulous, forked-tongue propagandists who twist their beliefs, and their very words, into something that bears no resemblance to truth - until they discover the wherewithal to seize the initiative and voice this phrase directly to their blatherskite interlocutors on the Left —  Cold Fury
  • And blessed with the gift of rapid response blatherskite, doggone it. —  corrente SBL
  • The Federals lost a large number of men killed, and the wounded upon both sides, were numerous The Confederate Major was of the class referred to in polite American parlance, as a "blatherskite." —  Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War
  • What's all that blatherskite, any old way Villain (_privily drawing bludgeon_). —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916
  • Ye'r nobbut an auld blatherskite, 'Becca, as preaches mair charity in a day ner ye'r ready to stand by in a twelvemonth. —  The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. blather + dialectal skite, a contemptible person (from Middle English skite, diarrhea, from Old Norse skītr, excrement, from skīta, to defecate; see skei- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. Also in Scots bletherskite, bletherskate; from blather, blether, + skate, a term of contempt.
 

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/ˈblæðərskajt/
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