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blithering, ppl. a. colloq.|ˈblɪðərɪŋ|
[f. Blither v. + -ing2.]
Senselessly discursive or talkative, babbling; esp. of a person, used chiefly as an intensive adjective, with the meaning ‘consummate’ (freq. in blithering idiot); also more widely = despicable, contemptible.
1889Punch 9 Feb. 65 I'll state pretty clearly that his son is a blithering idiot. 1895Ibid. 30 Mar. 153, I had thought that you..would have had a soul above blithering detail. 1903‘A. McNeill’ Egreg. Eng. 179 These songs..are of the most blithering and bathotic nature. 1923Blackw. Mag. Jan. 70/2, I was cursing myself for the blitheringest ass that ever was born. 1926G. Frankau Masterson xxix, I was a blithering idiot to get in—knowing you as well as I do. 1928‘Rebecca West’ Strange Necessity 310 The blithering incompetence of English statesmen during the War of Independence. |