blether

[bleth -er]

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noun, verb (used with or without object)

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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.
The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918
Frederick William Bewsher
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.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX
Alexander Leighton
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

Scot a variant spelling of blather

Word Origin for blether

C16: from Old Norse blathra, from blathr nonsense

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