Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To give forth or produce a quick succession of slight sounds; patter: as, “the rain blattered,”
- To speak or prate volubly; rail or rage.
- noun A rattling or clattering noise (as of boards falling).
- noun A volley of clattering words.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Archaic To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter.
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- noun
blather - verb To blather
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Examples
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I suspect you are both loud-mounthed, low-brow couch potatos who have never lifted a finger in defense of this country, but are happy to blatter away the freedoms that Kerry and every other veteran has fought for.
Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics 2010
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The endless blatter at the beginning immediately put me off the game and didn't exactly make me happy to start with.
Choices, Choices SVGL 2008
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Awl ai gots iz gawl blatter rocks, an ai be big sissee bouts it.
It was horrible - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I have been forced in (since I began to write to you) to blatter to Fanny on the subject of my heroine, there being two cruces as to her life and history: how came she alone? and how far did she go with the
Vailima Letters 2005
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Boil a quart of new milk, steep a pint of fine flour or oatmeal in it ten or twelve hours, then beat four eggs in a little milk, so much as will make like thick blatter, drop them in by spoonfuls into fresh butter, a spoonful of butter in a cake, and grate sugar over them; have sack, butter and sugar for sauce.
English Housewifery 2004
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As we proceed, francolins of three varieties run across the path, and hundreds of turtle-doves rise, with great blatter of wing, and fly off to the trees.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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It was at the very moment that his fury was peaking that there loomed swimmingly in his headlights, hardly visible through the blatter, a figure by the roadside.
So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984
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Rain type 17 was a dirty blatter battering against his windscreen so hard that it didn't make much odds whether he had his wipers on or off.
So long, and thanks for all the fish Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1984
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In his strait, the clerk bethought him of two or three words of Latin he used in making out the town's deeds; and no sooner had he tried the strange object before him with these, than out came such a blatter of Latin, that Rab Tull -- who with all his pretensions was no great scholar -- was overwhelmed.
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A blatter of musketry was opened on them, and they too had to give up the attempt and return.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 F. L. Morrison
qms commented on the word blatter
There’s babble, there’s gabble and chatter;
There’s jabber and gibber and patter.
You can, if you’d rather,
Abide by plain blather
Or flatter the word fans with blatter.
March 24, 2019
bilby commented on the word blatter
Weird that of the example links, the ones to the So Long And Thanks For All The Fish direct to the word undefined. Also the Adelaide etext ones seem to be borked.
March 25, 2019