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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: foolish gibberish [syn: blather, blatherskite]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Scots, alteration of blather skate, from blather, blether blather + skate a contemptible person Date: circa 1650 1. a person who blathers a lot 2. nonsense, blather

Oxford Reference Dictionary

(also bletherskate) n. 1 a person who blathers. 2 = BLATHER n. Etymology: BLATHER + skite, corrupt. of derog. use of SKATE(2)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blatherskite Blath"er*skite, n. A blustering, talkative fellow. [Local slang, U. S.] --Barllett.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Colloq. U. S. and Scotland.) 1. Blusterer, vaporer, prater, vapid talker, voluble dunce, noisy fool. 2. Vaporing, voluble vapidity. See bluster.