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- Dictionaryblether/ˈblɛðə/
verb
- 1. talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense: "there's plenty of stuff I could blether about from today"
noun
- 1. long-winded talk with no real substance: "some stupid blether about puns surrounding the Beatles"
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noun, verb. UK uk / ˈbleð.ə r/ us / ˈbleð.ɚ / Add to word list. → blather informal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Ways of talking. atonally. beg the question idiom. blah. blither. come out. coo. pipe up. prate. spit something out. spluttery. stammer. stiltedly. sweet nothings. talk nonsense idiom. talk through your hat idiom. tattle.
noun. blather. blether. / ˈblɛðə / verb. a variant spelling of blather. Discover More. Word History and Origins. Origin of blether 1. C16: from Old Norse blathra , from blathr nonsense. Discover More. Example Sentences. He replied, Och, we just boomed yon stone boxes until they stopped their blether, and then went to the next one.
Definitions of blether. noun. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk. synonyms: chin music, idle talk, prate, prattle. see more. verb. to talk foolishly. synonyms: babble, blather, blither, smatter. see more.
Define blether. blether synonyms, blether pronunciation, blether translation, English dictionary definition of blether. v. & n. Variant of blather. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing...
Definition of blether verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
blether in British English. (ˈblɛðə ) verb, noun. Scottish a variant spelling of blather. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C16: from Old Norse blathra, from blathr nonsense. Word Frequency.
blether. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English bleth‧er /ˈbleðə $ -ər/ verb [ intransitive] to talk about things that are not important – used especially in Scotland —blether noun [ countable, uncountable] → See Verb table.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the noun blether mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun blether. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions.
(mass noun) long-winded talk with no real substance some stupid blether about puns surrounding the Beatles 2. ( count noun ) a chat or conversation we sat there for two hours having a blether 3. ( count noun ) a person who likes to chat or talk at length he knows he can be a blether sometimes
Ulster and Scotch form blether, blethering: Burns speaks of stringing 'blethers up in rhyme.' English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. Joyce Blethers, by the memory of the innumerable half-crowns that have passed between us, be my friend now!
