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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
blether .
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Examples
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She blethered on while Bill sipped his fortified tea and Joanne warmed herself by the fire.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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He kept talking about "tough choices" and "difficult decisions" but as far as I could tell he didn't answer a single one of John Humphries questions, he just blethered on about Tory cuts whilst failing to acknowledge that Labour will on their own figures have to cut too.
Archive 2009-06-01 Mark Reckons 2009
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He kept talking about "tough choices" and "difficult decisions" but as far as I could tell he didn't answer a single one of John Humphries questions, he just blethered on about Tory cuts whilst failing to acknowledge that Labour will on their own figures have to cut too.
Liam Byrne was unintelligible on Today this morning Mark Reckons 2009
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She blethered for ages and ages and ages on the second question.
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Pitmatic anna new - ah've blethered on aboot it in Wordorigins like.
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They blethered endlessly, the way they used to, making each other laugh, exchanging thoughts and ideas.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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All day Saturday they had been alternately playing and fighting with Heather and Stephanie, Moray's wee sisters, in the house and round the garden while their mums drank coffee and blethered in the kitchen and their dads hit into a force eight on the links.
Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996
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As Jack afterward said, "They blethered like a lot o 'wild geese."
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The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood
Spring o' the Year 1908
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The flock blethered at the home corral, and old Pedro Ruiz, hobbling out to let them in, stood a long time at the bars wondering what had become of Felicita.
Spring o' the Year 1908
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