Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Variant of blather.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- v. to talk foolishly
- n. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk
Examples
“Thanks, asianHusseingrrl "that one" MN, I know that & saw it - I just want a HUGE pic of it at the actual event … - otherwise I'll get a bunch of 'blether' from the pwwnbn … … ….”
“Sleek and smart, those wee black eyes dart from side to side and while others blether and blunder he just keeps to his game and he's always witty.”
The Guardian: Alex Salmond: Scotland's new superhero | Observer profile
“The four of you lads can stay and blether on for as long as you like.”
“I canna but believe Richard was of a mind to frighten you and nothing more with all his blether about marriage.”
“He babbled, carrying on like some serving wench with good gossip, unable to stop his own blether, until she ducked her shoulder away from his touch.”
“Anyways, we made our way back to the festival by way of a bar, for a wee beer and a blether, and then a supermarket, so's I could pick up some beer for the room party I was reckoning as a necessity that night, given that the hotel bar in Novotel closed at half twelve the previous night.”
“There was beer and blether and more blether and more beer.”
“I'd tweeted of my trip and, knowing them from WFCs in the past, ended up arranging for beer and a blether on Friday, and to see the show together on Thursday.”
“I'll have a blether with my father about tomorrow's plans and then I go to sleep, weary in my bones, rather than overwrought with mental fatigue, wondering if the weather will play out as predicted.”
The Guardian: Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg
“It seems to crop up a lot in political blether of Mr Davies 'kind.”
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blether’.
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Waffalage
waffle, confuzzled, boggle, aberrant, ploogie, kumquat, blether, witter, prattle, defenestrate, coprolite, rambutan and 14 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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Welcome in Wonderland
Real words that I think would fit right into Wonderland/Underland vocabulary. Because I'm a geeky fangirl and that's how I roll. ^_^
widdershins, kenspeckle, thropple, whigmaleerie, swither, kerfuffle, stravaig, guddle, tapsalteerie, clashmaclavers, murgullie, umbersorrow and 37 more...
Tweets
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sonofgroucho Didn't realise that this is a variant of blather. Mar 20, 2007