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• blether (Northern England, Scotland, Northern Ireland)

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/
• 韻: -æðə(ɹ)

動詞

blather (third-person singular simple present blathers, present participle blathering, simple past and past participle blathered)

1. (intransitive, derogatory) To talk rapidly without making much sense.
   • 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 249:

     “There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.

   • 1905 (date written), James Joyce, “Grace”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, page 210:

     It was at the unveiling of Sir John Gray's statue. Edmund Dwyer Gray was speaking, blathering away, and here was this old fellow, crabbed-looking old chap, looking at him from under his bushy eyebrows.

   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish‎, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, published 2014, section 5:

     On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

2. (transitive, derogatory) To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.
   • 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo‎, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, act I, scene i, page 31:

     Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!

   • 1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 3, page 214:

     […] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.

派生語

名詞

blather (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) Foolish or nonsensical talk.

   Synonyms: blither; see also Thesaurus:chatter

   • 1897, G. A. Henty, chapter 1, in With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, page 16:

     That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

   • 1922, Rafael Sabatini, chapter 23, in Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 265:

     Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

   • 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance‎, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, part 5, page 280:

     With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

語源 2

名詞

blather (plural blathers)

1. Obsolete form of bladder.
   • 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,

     […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe

     A blather, where the windes imboweld were,

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