Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blether"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blather \Blath"er\ (bl[a^][th]"[~e]r), v. i. & t. [imp. & p. p.
{Blathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blathering}.] [Written also
{blether}.] [Icel. bla[eth]ra. Cf. {Blatherskite}.]
To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. --G. Eliot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blather \Blath"er\, n. [Written also {blether}.]
Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl.
--Hall Caine.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
blether
n : idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: {prate}, {prattle},
{idle talk}, {chin music}]
v : to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at
the baby" [syn: {babble}, {blather}, {smatter}, {blither}]
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