blather
suomi-englanti sanakirjablather englannista suomeksi
höpinä, jaarittelu
höpistä, jokeltaa
blather englanniksi
(RQ:Eliot Felix Holt)
(RQ:Joyce Dubliners)
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To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.
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(RQ:Pirsig Zen) the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.
Nonsensical or foolish talk.
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(quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/captainbloodhis00sabagoog/page/n285|chapter=23|page=265|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|location=New York
{{quote-text|en|year=1995|author=Rohinton Mistry|title=A Fine Balance|location=Toronto|publisher=McClelland & Stewart|section=Part 5, p. 280|url=https://archive.org/details/finebalanc00mist
(obsolete form of)
1596, (w), ''Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation,'' Oxford: Joseph Barnes,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00823.0001.001
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- A blather, where the windes imboweld were,