Attn: The Earl

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Your PM box is full, tried to send my feedback. The piece is very good indeed, great little tale with brilliant ending. Is it long enough to submit? I loved especially, "a smile curving across his face like cream across a saucer".

Pear

 

[TheEarl]

My box is now empty. This thread is officially open for hijack.

Let the blethering begin!

The Earl

 

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Entry printed from Oxford English Dictionary Online © Oxford University Press 2004 - SECOND EDITION, 1989
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blether, blather, v. Sc. and north. dial.

(bl(r), blæ(r)) Also (?) 6 blother. [ME. blather, a. ON. blara to talk stupidly, f. blar nonsense. Blather is the etymological form, blether being Sc. and north. Eng. (like gether = gather etc.). But in mod.Eng., the word is generally accepted as Scotch (from Burns, Scott, Carlyle, etc.) and in the Scotch form. In U.S. blather appears to be more frequent.]

1. intr. To talk nonsense loquaciously.
1524 A. SCOTT Vision xix, And limpand Vulcan blethers. [1526 SKELTON Magnyf. 1049, I blunder, I bluster, I blowe and I blother.] 1787 BURNS Holy Fair viii, Some are busy blethrin Right loud that day. 1867 E. WAUGH Owd Bl. iv. 89 in Lanc. Gloss., He blether't abeawt religion. 1884 Punch 1 Mar. 102 Fluent folly may maunder and blether.

b. trans. To babble.
1810 TANNAHILL Poems (1846) 145 She blethered it round.

2. intr. To cry loudly, to blubber. dial.
1863 MRS. TOOGOOD Yorksh. Dial. s.v., What's thou blethering at? child. 1855 Whitby Gloss., Blether, to blubber, to weep aloud.

 

[TheEarl]

Blether in the sense of a talk between friends where inanities are exchanged.

The Earl

 

[lewdandlicentious]

Would that be, as in:

"Inane bletherings" ????????

 

[Guest]

"Blethering idiots" is a phrase commonly used around here. Usually when referring to people who talk a lot about nothing much.

I think I'd class myself as one.

 

[TheEarl]

More as in 'Sit down and have a blether.' It's a Scottishism - something I've picked up from a friend.

The Earl

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Your PM box is full, tried to send my feedback. The piece is very good indeed, great little tale with brilliant ending. Is it long enough to submit? I loved especially, "a smile curving across his face like cream across a saucer".

Pear

*le sigh*

I'm still giddy!

 

[fifty5]

"Blethering idiots" is a phrase commonly used around here. Usually when referring to people who talk a lot about nothing much.

I think I'd class myself as one.

Up north, the usage I'm more used to is "blithering idiots" - and while the original derivation seems likely to be that blather/blether, current usage comes across more as a euphemism for ****ing - simply a bowdlerised, expletive emphasis.

And you don't blether, Lou, you're just a post ho!



Eff

 

[cantdog]

And an effervescent wit with a fine arse.

 

[fifty5]

And an effervescent wit with a fine arse.

And tits...



Eff