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blath⋅er

[blath-er]
–noun
1. foolish, voluble talk: His speech was full of the most amazing blather.
–verb (used without object), verb (used with object)
2. to talk or utter foolishly; blither; babble: The poor thing blathered for hours about the intricacies of his psyche.
Also, blether.


Origin:
ME; ON blathra to chatter, blabber


blath⋅er⋅er, noun
blath·er   (blāth'ər)   
intr.v.   blath·ered also bleth·ered, blath·er·ing also bleth·er·ing, blath·ers also bleth·ers
To talk nonsensically.
n.  Nonsensical talk.

[Old Norse bladhra; see bhlē- in Indo-European roots.]
blath'er·er n.

Blather

Blath"er\ (bl[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p. Blathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blathering.] [Written also blether.] [Icel. bla[eth]ra. Cf. Blatherskite.] To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. --G. Eliot.

Blather

Blath"er\, n. [Written also blether.] Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl. --Hall Caine.

blather 
1524, Scottish, probably from a Scand. source, such as O.N. blaðr "to chatter, babble," probably of imitative origin. Blatherskite "talker of blatant nonsense" (1650) was popularized in U.S. during the Revolution by the Scottish song "Maggie Lauder."
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