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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: foolish gibberish [syn: blather, blatherskite] v
1: to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" [syn: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither]

Merriam Webster's

I. intransitive verb (blathered; blathering) Etymology: Old Norse blathra; akin to Middle High German bl?dern to chatter Date: 1524 to talk foolishly at length — often used with on • blatherer noun II. noun Date: 1719 1. voluble nonsensical or inconsequential talk or writing 2. stir, commotion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. (also blether) --n. foolish chatter. --v.intr. chatter foolishly. Etymology: ME blather, Sc. blether, f. ON blathra talk nonsense f. blathr nonsense

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(blathers, blathering, blathered) If someone is blathering on about something, they are talking for a long time about something that you consider boring or unimportant. The old men blather on and on... Stop blathering... He kept on blathering about police incompetence. VERB: V on, V, V about n • Blather is also a noun. Anyone knows that all this is blather.

Moby Thesaurus

absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, be stupid, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blatherskite, blether, blethers, blither, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunkum, burble, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, dither, dote, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flapdoodle, flimflam, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hokum, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, jazz, malarkey, maunder, mere talk, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, slobber, spout, spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, trash, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, yak, yakkety-yak