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  • noun Plural form of blatherskite.

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Examples

  • Yappers and blatherskites, the whole brood of them!

    Chapter 37 2010

  • Garbled and forged letters were peddled and paraded over the State by windy political blatherskites, who were hired to propagate the calumnies of their employers.

    Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 George W. Julian

  • O let us boost for better streets, and softer beds, and longer sheets; for smoother lawns and better lights, and shorter-winded blatherskites; for finer homes, and larger trees, for bats and boots and bumble bees; for shorter hours and longer pay, and fewer thistles in our hay, for better grub, and bigger pies, for two more moons to light the skies.

    Rippling Rhymes Walt Mason

  • "Well, Duchess, I guess that's where a lady with a real, beautiful, old-fashioned soul has the advantage of these modern young blatherskites — there aren't many men who wouldn't be nice — to her, and even then, if they aren't rock-bottom she can see through them."

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

  • The accent of this speech was so flattering that Mr. Milligan purred almost audibly, and said: "Wal, Duchess, I guess that's where a lady with a real, beautiful, old-fashioned soul has the advantage of these modern young blatherskites — there aren't many men who wouldn't be nice — to her, and even then, if they aren't rock-bottom she can see through them."

    Whose Body Sayers, Dorothy L. 1923

  • I believe in being broad-minded and liberal, but, of course, I’m just as much agin the cranks and blatherskites and labor unions and so on as you are.

    Chapter 32 1922

  • I believe in being broad-minded and liberal, but, of course, I'm just as much agin the cranks and blatherskites and labor unions and so on as you are.

    Babbitt 1922

  • Sincerity alone has been rather too much exalted as an excuse for the follies and crimes of fanatics and zealots, blatherskites and cranks.

    Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography Thayer, William R 1919

  • I believe in being broad-minded and liberal, but, of course, I'm just as much agin the cranks and blatherskites and labor unions and so on as you are.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Yappers and blatherskites, the whole brood of them!

    Chapter 37 1908

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