blatter

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[blat-er] / ˈblæt ər /

verb (used without object)

1. to chatter volubly.

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verb (used with object)

1. to utter volubly.

noun

1. the act or sound of blattering.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• blatterer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of blatter

1545–55; < Latin blaterāre to prate, babble; use and spelling probably altered by association with other expressive verbs ending in -er ⁶

Example Sentences

Typographical errors corrected in text: Page 24:  Blatter replaced with Blätter Note that 'ana' is a collection of miscellaneous information about a particular subject, person, place, or thing.

From The myth of the Jewish menace in world affairs or, The truth about the forged protocols of the elders of Zion by Wolf, Lucien

I don’t know whether we were overseen; certain it is that in the next number of the Fliegende Blätter the scene was well depicted, with the words. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Die Weissen Blätter appeared in January, 1915, with the following announcement: It seems good to us to begin the work of reconstruction in the midst of the war.

From The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship by Picton, Harold W. (Harold Williams)

For the sacredness of the number three and its multiples, see Diels, Sibyllinische Blätter, p.

From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde

The present editor saw it recently in the German comic paper Fliegende Blätter.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax