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▪ I. blooter, n. orig. and chiefly Sc. Now colloq.
Brit. |ˈbluːtə|, U.S. |ˈbludər|, Sc. |ˈblutər|
Forms: 16– bluiter, 19– blooter Irish English (north.) 18 blootther, 19– blooter, 19– bloother
[Origin unknown. Compare later blooter v. and blootered adj., and perhaps also bluter adj., blatter v., blether v.
The a 1585 reading in quot. a 1625 1 shows a variant of bleater n.]
1. A fool; an oaf, a blunderer; a noisy or babbling person (cf. blatter n.). Also as a general term of abuse.
a1625P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Harl.) 141 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) I laugh to see thé, bluiter [a 1585 Tullibardine bleitter], Glor in thy ragments. a1627(a 1598) A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) 135 A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind. 1825J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (Suppl.) Bluiter.., a coarse, clumsy, blundering fellow. 1880W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Blootther,..a clumsy blundering rustic. 1890J. Service Thir Notandums i. 3 The great bluiter hauds her wi' his clavers. 1907N. Munro Daft Days (1923) xiii, ‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’ 1914in Sc. National Dict. (1941) II. (at cited word), The auld bluiter has made a gey mess o't. 1925Trans. Dumfries & Galloway Nat. Hist. & Antiquarian Soc. 18 He's sic a bluiter o' a speaker I canna make him oot. 1996C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 30/2 Blooter.., a big, stupid, clumsy person..; a silly, foolish person..; a noisy person. 1999Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 23 July 13 Women go into pubs..to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.
2. A hard and (usually) wild kick of a ball; a ball kicked in this way. Cf. blooter v. 3a.
[1880W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Blootther, a severe blow.] 1976Sunday Post (Glasgow) 26 Dec. 35/2 The equaliser, was the goal of the game, for me. A Reid lob, a half-clearance by Fallon and a mighty blooter from the edge of the box from Stark. 1997Scotsman (Nexis) 6 Oct. 27 The ball was lumped forward relentlessly and after a hectic 23 minutes the score was 2–3. Duarte had been introduced to the subtleties of the big blooter. 2002Daily Mail (Nexis) 23 Dec. 52 He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.
▪ II. blooter, v. orig. and chiefly Sc. Now colloq.
Brit. |ˈbluːtə|, U.S. |ˈbludər|, Sc. |ˈblutər|
Forms: 17– bluiter, 18– blooter, 19– bloother[Irish English (north.)]
[Probably ‹blooter n.]
†1. intr. To cry shrilly (in quot. 1793, of a curlew). Obs. rare.
1793R. Brown Carlop Green (1832) 20 The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters In the bogs, like a soo.
2. intr. To act or work in a bungling manner, to blunder; to talk foolishly, to babble, to chatter. Also trans.: to do (a job) in bungling way, to botch; (with direct speech as object) to blurt out.
a 1859 blootering adj. at Derivatives1866W. Gregor Dial. Banffshire 13 Bluiter, to do work in a bungling manner. 1913J. Service Memorables Robin Cummell ii, Jamie..at last bluitered oot—‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’ 1922T. S. Cairncross Scot at Hame 54 To bluiter like a bogle aneth a six-foot wa'. 1996M. Munro Compl. Patter 19 There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it. 1996C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 30/2, Blooter.., work in a bungling, clumsy way..; stumble along..; talk in a silly way.
3. trans.
a. To kick (a ball) hard and usually wildly.
1985M. Munro Patter 11 The big defender just blootered it up the park. 1994Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 10 Oct. 27 It's important to me how the ball gets from end to end. I want it played, not blootered. 2001Sunday Herald (Glasgow) 19 Aug. (Sport section) 16/7 We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.
b. To hit with force; to smash.
1990J. Byrne Your Cheatin' Heart vi. 159/2 A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me..brains blootered aw err the tarmac. 1994J. Kelman How Late it Was 85 There was a bus coming fast on the inside lane and the fucking wing mirror fucking blootered him man right on the fucking skull, blood belching out. 2003Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 14 Dec. 12 ‘You can run at someone and blooter them,’ enthuses Scotland's most capped winger, Kenny Logan. ‘You can smash them out of the road.’
Derivatives. blootering adj. (in forms blootrin, bluit'rin') clumsy.
a1859W. Watt Poems & Songs (1860) 248 Bauldy bann'd the *blootrin fool, That did him sae bespatter This merry nicht. 1912D. McKie Fables frae French 37 The clumsy cuddy heist his hoof, A' worn an' glaur't, the bluit'rin' coof, An' clapp't wi' it his Maister's chin. |