blather
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Động từ
verb- 1.
(derogatory, intransitive)To talk rapidly without making much sense.
- 2.
(derogatory, transitive)To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
(derogatory, uncountable)Foolish or nonsensical talk.
Đồng nghĩa: blither, babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, claver, clepe, gabble, hot air, mardle, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, scuttlebutt, small talk, tattle, twaddle, waffle, yackety-yak, yap, yatter
- 2.
(alt of, obsolete)Obsolete form of bladder.
1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes, […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe A blather, where the windes imboweld were,
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From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense). Cognate with blether, bladder, bledder (to blather), dialectal bladdern, bladra, blaðra.