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单词 blathery
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blatheryn.adj.

Forms: Also bladarie, bladdrie, bladry, blaidry, blaithrie.
Etymology: Etymological form and history uncertain: perhaps a derivative of bladder n., and more properly spelt bladdery . It has with less likelihood been referred to blether n. to speak nonsense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblathery.
Scottish.
A. n.
Something unsubstantial, hollow, or deceptive; flummery; phlegm from the bronchial tubes.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > insubstantial
triflec1290
vainc1330
winda1382
vapour1382
gossamer?a1400
visevase1481
good morrow1542
cobweb1579
superficial1579
puff1583
bladder1589
blathery1591
froth1594
bag of winda1599
moth1600
nominala1625
tumour1630
windlestraw1637
vacuity1648
balloon1656
blank1678
breath bubble1835
nominality1842
fluff1906
cotton candy1931
1591 R. Bruce Serm. (Jam.) The inward heart is full of bladarie, quhilk bladarie shal..multiply thy torments.
a1605 A. Montgomerie Poems (1821) 75 This barme & blaidry buists up all my bees.
a1693 M. Bruce Soul-confirmation (1709) 21 Nothing..but Bladdrie instead of wholesome Food.
1703 D. Williamson Serm. before Gen. Assembly Edinb. 42 It was a fair horse that came into Troy, but there was meikle blathery in his Belly which the Trojans saw not.
1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 296 Shame fall the gear and the blad'ry o't'.
1737 A. Ramsay in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 507/2 If manag'd as it ought to be, Frae ilka vice and blaidry free?
B. adj.
Unsubstantial, rotten, trashy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]
flittingc1374
aerya1398
bottomlessa1413
hollowa1529
flittering1549
wanzing1571
aerial1581
slight1585
flit1590
windy1593
filmy1594
tenuous1597
unsubstantial1597
yeasty1598
thingless1599
airy1600
spare1602
spongy1603
insubstantial1607
baselessa1616
thina1616
insolid1618
insubstantiate1621
tenuious1634
bubble1635
thin-spun1638
subventaneous1646
unsubstanceda1658
whipped1673
aericala1678
huffy1678
blatherya1693
naughty1696
substanceless1784
vapoury1818
aeriform1827
airified1837
blow-away1858
non-substantial1858
unbased1860
evasive1881
stuffless1896
fabricless1905
lighter-than-air1909
a1693 M. Bruce Good News in Evil Times (1707) 32 A 4th. sort of Blathrie Ware we bring to Christs Grave, is a number of ill guided complaints.
1863 J. C. Atkinson Provinc. Danby Bladdry, muddy, dirty.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Blathery..‘It's blathery walking.’]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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