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blether

[ bleth-er ]

noun



blether

/ ˈblɛðə /

verb

  1. a variant spelling of blather


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Word History and Origins

Origin of blether1

C16: from Old Norse blathra , from blathr nonsense

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Example Sentences

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

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!

Ulster and Scotch form blether, blethering: Burns speaks of stringing 'blethers up in rhyme.'

In the same way Mr. Philip can blether to his silly heart's content and he'll never prove that I'm a bold girl.

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