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BLETHER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Idle or foolish and irrelevant talkplay

Synonyms:

blether; chin music; idle talk; prate; prattle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("blether" is a kind of...):

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak (noisy talk)

Derivation:

blether (to talk foolishly)

 II. (verb) 

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they blether  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it blethers  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past simple: blethered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Past participle: blethered  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

-ing form: blethering  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

Sense 1

Meaning:

To talk foolishlyplay

Example:

The two women babbled and crooned at the baby

Synonyms:

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "blether" is one way to...):

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

blether (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)

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