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ˈblathery, n. and a. Sc.
Also bladarie, bladdrie, bladry, blaidry, blaithrie.
[Etymological form and history uncertain: perh. a derivative of bladder n., and more properly spelt bladdery. It has with less likelihood been referred to blether to speak nonsense.]
A. n. Something unsubstantial, hollow, or deceptive; flummery; phlegm from the bronchial tubes.
1591R. Bruce Serm. (Jam.) The inward heart is full of bladarie, quhilk bladarie shal..multiply thy torments. a1605Montgomerie Poems (1821) 75 This barme & blaidry buists up all my bees. 1703D. Williamson Serm. bef. Gen. Ass. 42 It was a fair horse that came into Troy, but there was meikle blathery in his Belly which the Trojans saw not. 1709M. Bruce Soul Confirm. 23 (Jam.) Nothing..but bladdrie instead of wholesome food. 1721J. Kelly Scot. Proverbs 296 Shame fall the gear and the blad'ry o't.' a1758Ramsay Poems (1800) I. Life 44 (Jam.) Frae ilka vice and blaidry free.
B. adj. Unsubstantial, rotten, trashy.
1708M. Bruce Lect. 28 (Jam.) A 4th sort of blathrie ware we bring to Christ's grave, is a number of ill-guided complaints. [1863Atkinson Danby Provinc., Bladdry, muddy, dirty. 1875Robinson Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.), Blathery..‘It's blathery walking.’] |