单词 | blather |
释义 | blather/ˈblaðə /(also blither or chiefly Scottish blether) verb [no object] Talk long-windedly without making very much sense: she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death (as noun blathering) now stop your blathering and get back to work...
Synonyms prattle, babble, chatter, twitter, prate, gabble, jabber, go on, run on, rattle on/away, yap, jibber-jabber, patter, blether, blither, maunder, ramble, drivel informal yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter British informal witter, rabbit, chunter, natter, waffle Scottish & Northern English informal slabber Australian/New Zealand informal mag archaic twaddle, clack, twattle noun [mass noun] Long-winded talk with no real substance: all the blather coming out of Washington about crime...
Synonyms prattle, chatter, twitter, babble, talk, prating, gabble, jabber, blether, rambling; nonsense, rubbish, balderdash, gibberish, claptrap informal yackety-yak, yabbering, yatter, rot, tripe, twaddle, hogwash, baloney, drivel, bilge, bosh, bull, bunk, guff, eyewash, piffle, poppycock, phooey, hooey, malarkey, dribble British informal wittering, nattering, chuntering, cobblers, codswallop, stuff and nonsense, tosh, cack Scottish & Northern English informal havers North American informal garbage, flapdoodle, blathers, wack, bushwa, applesauce informal, dated bunkum, tommyrot, cod, gammon, toffee vulgar slang shit, bullshit, horseshit, crap, bollocks, balls Australian/New Zealand vulgar slang bulldust archaic clack, twattle Derivativesblatherer
OriginLate Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra 'talk nonsense', from blathr 'nonsense'. Rhymes |
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