blather
/ˈblaðə
/(also blither or chiefly Scottish blether)
verb [no object]
Talk long-windedly without making very much sense: she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death (as noun blathering) now stop your blathering and get back to work...
- According to the comment a couple of posts below, I have to stop blathering about trains now.
- When will he stop blathering about the morality of others and look to his own sorry affairs?
- That isn't going to stop the blogger from blathering on about it.
Synonyms
prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle on/away, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel
informal yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter
British informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle
Scottish & Northern English informal slabber
Australian/New Zealand informal mag
archaic twaddle, clack, twattle
noun [mass noun]
Long-winded talk with no real substance: all the blather coming out of Washington about crime...
- That dried-up worthless twit once again obscures the real point with blather.
- Real thinking should prevail, not liberal blather.
- The blather from both sides obscures the real, but largely hidden, agenda behind the tax cuts.
Synonyms
prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling;
nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap
informal yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter, rot, tripe, twaddle, hogwash, baloney, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, dribble
British informal wittering, nattering, chuntering, cobblers, codswallop, stuff and nonsense, tosh, cack
Scottish & Northern English informal havers
North American informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce
informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee
vulgar slang shit, bullshit, horseshit, crap, bollocks, balls
Australian/New Zealand vulgar slang bulldust
archaic clack, twattle
Derivatives
blatherer
- You're not renowned for being a blatherer.
- It's good to see another famous political blatherer actually blathering something sensible.
- He saw academics generally as "liberal blatherers."
Origin
Late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra 'talk nonsense', from blathr 'nonsense'.
Rhymes
- THB
- THC
- Th.D.
- the
- the acceptable face of ——
- the Acropolis
- the Adirondacks
- the Aleutians
- the Alleghenies
- the Allies
- the Almighty
- the American dream
- the Americas
- the Ancient of Days
- the ancients
- the angel in the house
- the Annunciation
- the answer to someone's prayers
- theanthropic
- the Antipodes
- the ant's pants
- the Apocalypse
- the Appalachians
- the apple never falls far from the tree
- the apple of one's eye