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单词 blatherskite
释义

blatherskiten.

Forms: Also bletherskate.
Etymology: < blether v. + skate n.3 in Scots used contemptuously. The Scotch song Maggie Lauder, in which this word occurs, was a favourite ditty in the American camp during the War of Independence (J. Grant Wilson, Poets and Poetry of Scotl. I. 82); from this, bletherskate or, as more commonly used, blatherskite, became a familiar colloquialism in U.S.
dialect and U.S. colloquial.
a. A noisy talkative fellow; a talker of blatant nonsense.
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c1650 F. Sempill Maggie Lauder i Jog on your gait, ye bletherskate [v.r. bladderskate].
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Blatherskite, a blustering, noisy, talkative fellow.
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Blatherskite (‘Local U.S.’).
1864 Spectator No. 1884. 906 A muddle-headed ‘bletherskite’ called Colorado Jewett.
b. Foolish talk; nonsense.
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1861 N.Y. Tribune 28 Dec. To wit, our proving, not by verbal blatherskyte, but by facts, that the C.S.A. is dependent on us.
1956 C. Wilson Outsider ix. 272 For Nietzsche..there is no such thing as abstract knowledge; there is only useful knowledge and unprofitable blatherskite.

Derivatives

blatherskiting n.
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1880 Echo 28 Dec. 3/5 What is expressed by the slang word ‘blatherskiting,’ consumed three of the five days.
bletherumskite n. Irish dialect = blether n.
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1825 T. C. Croker Fairy Legends & Trad. S. Ireland I. 170 He was, as usual, getting on with his bletherumskite about the fairies.
1892 J. Barlow Bog-land 82 Wid your little black book full o' blatheremskyte.
1894 Daily News 29 May 5/1 It is still six hundred pages of sheer blood and blatherumskite.
1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island 111 There's too much blatherumskite in Irish politics.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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