blather

Definitions


[ˈblaðə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense
(e.g: she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death)


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Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra ‘talk nonsense’, from blathr ‘nonsense’


[ˈblaðə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- long-winded talk with no real substance
(e.g: all the blather coming out of Washington about crime)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra ‘talk nonsense’, from blathr ‘nonsense’




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