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noun, verb. UK uk / ˈbleð.ə r/ us / ˈbleð.ɚ / Add to word list. → blather informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Ways of talking. atonally. beg the question idiom. blah. blither. come out. coo. pipe up. prate. spit something out. spluttery. stammer. stiltedly. sweet nothings. talk nonsense idiom. talk through your hat idiom. tattle.
noun. blather. blether. / ˈblɛðə / verb. a variant spelling of blather. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of blether 1. C16: from Old Norse blathra , from blathr nonsense. Discover More. Example Sentences. He replied, Och, we just boomed yon stone boxes until they stopped their blether, and then went to the next one.
Definitions of blether. noun. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk. synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle. see more. verb. to talk foolishly. synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter. see more.
Define blether. blether synonyms, blether pronunciation, blether translation, English dictionary definition of blether. v. & n. Variant of blather.
blether in British English. (ˈblɛðə ) verb, noun. Scottish a variant spelling of blather. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C16: from Old Norse blathra, from blathr nonsense. Word Frequency.
Definition of blether verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun blether. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
Jun 13, 2024 · blether in American English. (ˈblɛðər ) noun, verb intransitive, verb transitive. blather. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
blether. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English bleth‧er /ˈbleðə $ -ər/ verb [ intransitive] to talk about things that are not important – used especially in Scotland —blether noun [ countable, uncountable] → See Verb table.
Ulster and Scotch form blether, blethering: Burns speaks of stringing 'blethers up in rhyme.'
