| 释义 |
bluther, v. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈblʌðə(r)|
Also blother, bludder.
[An onomatopœic word, of similar formation to blubber, with which it is often synonymous, though perhaps expressing more specifically the sound of air and liquid in the mouth, nose, and throat: cf. also blether, and esp. its form blother in Skelton. Wedgwood compares, as of similar formation, LG. plodern to sound like water gushing, Bavarian pludern to guggle like water gushing out of a narrow opening (cf. MHG. blôdern to rush, rustle); also mod.Ger. plaudern, Bav. blodern, plodern, LG. plûdern to gabble, jabber, chatter. See also bloother as a variant of blubber (of the whale).]
1. intr. ‘To raise wind-bells in water’, Jamieson. (Rather the bubbling sound made in doing so.)
2. intr. To cry with a voice smothered with tears and sobs; to blubber. to bluther out (trans.): to weep out.
1697W. Cleland Poems 35 (Jam.) Heraclitus, if he had seen, He would have bluther'd out his een.
3. trans. To make wet, mucous, and foul with weeping, etc.
1637Rutherford Lett. cv. (1862) I. 267 Christ..hath wiped a bluthered face which was foul with weeping. 1768Ross Helenore 28 (Jam.) His een..bluddert now with strypes of tears and sweat. 1790A. Shirref Poems 42 (Jam.) And drunken chapins bluther a' his face.
4. To blur and disfigure (writing, etc.) with wetting (Jamieson); also fig.
1727P. Walker Remark. Passages 57 (Jam.) That his faithful contendings for..reformation, should be blotted and bluthered with these right-hand extreams, and left-hand defections.
Hence ˈbluthered ppl. a. (see above), ˈblutherment dial. (in Whitby Gloss.). |