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blether

[bleth -er]
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noun, verb (used with or without object)
  1. blather.
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Related Words for blether

scandal, hearsay, chitchat, tale, conversation, slander, buzz, news, chatter, blab, blather, account, prate, chronicle, grapevine, defamation, cry, story, meddling, babble

Examples from the Web for blether

Historical Examples of blether

  • "I'm talkin' blether," she said, stumbling over a stone in the road.

    Changing Winds

    St. John G. Ervine

  • He replied, Och, we just boomed yon stone boxes until they stopped their blether, and then went to the next one.

  • These conversations usually ended in an admonition from Lisbeth to Peter to eat his meat and no blether.

    Hunter's Marjory

    Margaret Bruce Clarke

  • Her faither's ga' blether's fu' o' ga' stanes, or as my faither ca'es them, ga' nuts—a decided icterus or jaundice.

  • As if the holy Psalmist thought of rattling rhymes in blether, like his own silly clinkum-clankum that he calls verse!

    Red Cap Tales

    Samuel Rutherford Crockett

British Dictionary definitions for blether

blether

verb, noun
  1. Scot a variant spelling of blather

Word Origin for blether

C16: from Old Norse blathra, from blathr nonsense
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