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blatherskite

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blath⋅er⋅skite

  [blath-er-skahyt]
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–noun
1. a person given to voluble, empty talk.
2. nonsense; blather.
Origin:
1640–50; blather + skite skate 3
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blath·er·skite   (blāth'ər-skīt')   
n.  

  1. A babbling, foolish person.

  2. Blather.


[blather + dialectal skite, a contemptible person (from Middle English skite, diarrhea, from Old Norse skītr, excrement, from skīta, to defecate; see skei- in Indo-European roots).]
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