Definitions

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  • noun One who blathers.

Etymologies

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to blather + -er

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Examples

  • That crowd was in power for so long that it became reflexive to repeat and comment upon the emissions of its designated blatherer of the day.

    Matthew Yglesias » Policy Solipsism: Broadband Policy Edition 2009

  • Count on some right-wing Bush blatherer to shrug and say that it was done in the name of fighting terrorism, and sometimes you have to bend the rules to keep us safe.

    No Fourth Amendment for You 2008

  • Rosenbaum accuses me of “living the good life” as a consultant, professor, blogger, blatherer.

    There, there, Ron « BuzzMachine 2008

  • It takes a fairly intelligent person that has a lot of random factual tidbits in their head to be an effective blatherer, and DLR is that person.

    David Lee Roth: Amtrak FM « BuzzMachine 2006

  • Steven L. Auslander, of Tucson, wrote, If someone consulting the dictionary is doing so in order to add words to a spoken diatribe, he or she may be described as a hunter-blatherer.

    Word Fugitives 2005

  • If Rush Limbaugh, this blatherer ofcontention andvitriolwere merely referringto Jesse MacBeth, why thendidhe use the word soldiers instead of soldier?

    Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq 2007

  • If Rush Limbaugh, this blatherer ofcontention andvitriolwere merely referringto Jesse MacBeth, why thendidhe use the word soldiers instead of soldier?

    Take Limbaugh Off the Air in Iraq 2007

  • Steven L. Auslander, of Tucson, wrote, If someone consulting the dictionary is doing so in order to add words to a spoken diatribe, he or she may be described as a hunter-blatherer.

    Word Fugitives 2005

  • One of the organisers, who I knew quite well for a couple of years there, I was an eternal blatherer on the e-group established to workshop ideas for panels, approached our table and asked if he could borrow my festival program to loan to the chair of the panel.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Kirsty 2005

  • One of the organisers, who I knew quite well for a couple of years there, I was an eternal blatherer on the e-group established to workshop ideas for panels, approached our table and asked if he could borrow my festival program to loan to the chair of the panel.

    Look to the Right Kirsty 2005

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