Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Talking incoherently; jabbering.
- v. present participle of blither.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. talking incoherently.
Examples
“Somehow the word blithering seems to go better with the word idiot.”
“At least I haven't yet been called a blithering idiot!”
“Of course, if he did look at the details first, and then decided to go off on his tirade, then I do apologise for calling a blithering idiot for not reading the details.”
“As to "blithering", I doubt you have seriously read their work, or the work of many academics.”
“My nephew morphed into some kind of blithering idiot immediately following a huge sugar-filled dessert that he shouldn't have had, and he proceeded to irritate Myra almost to the point of murder, all the way home.”
“What kind of blithering fools have they got over —”
“Ezra got up at some point, smiling and whistling some blithering tune, trotting around the kitchen in his underwear with his ribs, a long row of meatless tragedies that screamed for something other than the meal he was making.”
“And then write a long, blithering article for SF Signal about comparisons and contrasts between B5 and BSG, just to bother all you lot.”
“It was amazing how he went from strutting, boisterous hero to blithering idiot, once he found out that he had to go back and face the soldiers in his unit, and that they had copies of every single article that he wrote, and every television, radio and newspaper interview he so freely gave.”
“Apr 30, 2010 yelling. i hate yelling. i hate the knowledge that two little people who together weigh less than 85lbs can drive me from rational, sane, non-violent, mature person to blithering hollering idiot in milliseconds. also, guilt. but their ability to turn me into a joyous fool, willing to laugh out loud, do silly dances, and dress up in tutus where before i was much too reserved? that i adore.”
10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (And One That I Love) - Her Bad Mother
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘blithering’.
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March 2012
panache, evanescent, erogenous, vestibule, malfeasance, lacuna, blithering, incubate, breech, tabernacle, pearly, upholstery and 79 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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amber words
amber words is the term I use for words that are all but fossilized, in the sense that their use is always in the context of a single expression. Examples include caboodle, dudgeon, umbrage
sanctum, akimbo, amok, riddance, druthers, trove, caboodle, immemorial, blithering, dudgeon, swaddling, askance and 110 more...
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Favourite Words
sanguine, irk, pith, venerate, anomaly, reprobate, ethereal, antediluvian, obfuscate, wistful, plethora, absinthe and 108 more...
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New words, not to be confused with th...
maladroit, aphasia, delphinium, bromide, greenhorn, just deserts, loth, supplanted, steeplechase, steeple, annex, vestments and 236 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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Across the Pond
Words from Europe that amuse me. Words I associate with the BBC and British Literature. Any word that is not from the US or has a different spelling/pronunciation than the US version.
knickers, jodhpurs, stones, peckish, haver, blather, kith, valkyrie, haggis, egad, tosser, schadenfreude and 29 more...
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Kay's favorite words.
amok, schism, scoundrel, imbue, precipitate, crinkle, askew, blithering
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