单词 | blathery |
释义 | blatheryn.adj. 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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