subs. (common).—Noisy talk; voluble nonsense: cf. BLETHER. Hence, as verb = to talk volubly; noisily and to little purpose. Also BLATHERING HASH = a person who FOAMS (q.v.), HIGHFALUTES (q.v.), etc.; BLATTERING = chatter.
16[?]. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER [HALLIWELL]. There’s nothing gain’d by being witty; fame Gathers but wind to BLATHER up a name.
1864. YATES, Broken to Harness, xxix., 309 (1873). ‘There’s a letter there from Sir Mordaunt, askin’ for more time, and promisin’ all sorts of things; but I’m sick of him and his BLATHER.’
1884. W. C. RUSSELL, Jack’s Courtship, xxiv. Mrs. O’Brien was BLATHERING about the pedigree of the O’Briens and the O’Shandrydans to Mrs. Joyce.
