verb. (provincial).—To chatter; talk idly. Hence BLOTHERMENT = superfluous verbiage; and BLOTHERED = stupid, confused.

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  d. 1529.  SKELTON, Magnyfycence, i. 259.

        I blunder, I bluster, I blow, and I BLOTHER;
I make on the one day, and I marre on the other.

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