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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of blatter.

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Examples

  • I realise now that all the adults were completely blattered and, as I was allowed two bottles of Babycham, I must have been pretty tipsy too.

    Family life 2011

  • He was walking in the classic manner of the daytime drunk, with his feet planted far apart as if to brace himself against the swell of the pavement, a grin on his face proclaiming: "I'm blattered, but I'm getting away with it."

    The art of creating a stink in the dressing room Harry Pearson 2010

  • Russell swore and steered intently for a few seconds as the sky blattered at them.

    So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984

  • "I confess I am curious to know how the thing happened, but the hand of the Almighty's in it anyway," he said; and so saying he lay back in his chair with a sigh of satisfaction that lost nothing of its zest by the influence of the rain that blattered now in drumming violence on the window-panes.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • "A-ba-ba," he blattered, and made uncouth gestures, by which I think he meant to signify that he wanted the Wonder to come and play with him.

    The Wonder 1910

  • The wind howled and the rain blattered on the manse windows.

    Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

  • So the king he blattered along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dog in town, by his name, and mentioned all sorts of little things that happened one time or another in the town, or to George's family, or to Peter.

    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884

  • Wet or shine, she tramped to Merrick Kirk, even when the rain blattered and the wind raved and bleated alternately among the pines of the Long Wood of Barbrax.

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

  • So the king he blattered along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dog in town, by his name, and mentioned all sorts of little things that happened one time or another in the town, or to George's family, or to Peter.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872

  • So the king he blattered along, and managed to inquire about pretty much everybody and dog in town, by his name, and mentioned all sorts of little things that happened one time or another in the town, or to George's family, or to Peter.

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 21 to 25 Mark Twain 1872

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