blatteroon

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  1. A senseless babbler. I trusted T. P. with a weighty secret, conjuring him that it should not take air and go abroad, … but it went out of him the very next day…. I hate such blatteroons. Howell, Letters, ii. 75.

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  1. from Latin blatero(n-), a babbler, from blaterare, babble: see blatter.
 

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