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blather

blat·her

UK/ˈblæðə(ɹ)/ US/ˈblæðɜr/ uncommon obsolete
noun (1) verb (1)

noun

1.

verb

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to talk foolishly

  • “The two women babbled and crooned at the baby”
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Origin

From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”).

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