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

• blatterer
  noun

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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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

blatter

He very nearly breaks clear into the box, but Clyne is tenacious and recovers well to blatter the ball away from danger.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 12, 2015

Patsy had been teaching her companion such phrases as "a blatter o' sleet," an "on-ding o' snaw," and a "thresh o' rain."

From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

As we proceed, francolins of three varieties run across the path, and hundreds of turtle-doves rise, with great blatter of wing, and fly off to the trees. 

From A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 by David Livingstone

They procured … preachers to blatter against me, … so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

I’m not your man, and we’re not going to have any of that kind of blatter.

From Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennett

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