- a variation of blather.
blether
Americannoun
verb
Etymology
Origin of blether
C16: from Old Norse blathra , from blathr nonsense
Example Sentences
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Julie said Caroline was "so big on family" and described her as a "wee blether" who loved to chat.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2023
Karl rang up Seamus Heaney to point out a mistake in a stanza: ‘Scottish sheep don’t chatter – they blether’
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2019
She was always late for class in the morning because she would stay back at breakfast club to blether.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2019
“When the flats were new, everybody knew their neighbours, your door was always open and you’d always stop for a blether when you passed someone on the stairs,” she said.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2015
Ilk hoary hunter mourn’d a brither; Ilk sportsman youth bemoan’d a father; Yon auld grey stane, amang the heather, Marks out his head, Whare Burns has wrote in rhyming blether Tam Samson’s dead!
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
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