- 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
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
Every literary culture has among its first bearings the "blether" of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2010
Oh, SAUNDERSON, my Colonel, Could you but pull together, Orange and Green, a truce were seen To bigotry and blether.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892 by Various
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