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Meanings of blether in English

Catalan
claca
Spanish
disparate

Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.

        claca

        To talk foolishly.

              Usage of blether in English
              1
              All the blether about how strong unions will destroy the economy?
              The Guardian
              2
              Much blether about comradeship and passion and commitment, beslobbered with overstatement and pseudo-specialist gibberish.
              The Irish Times
              3
              But we blether about one or two wee things.
              The Irish Times
              4
              It is more damneder nonsense than poor Rousseau's blether.
              Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
              5
              He went over to win a penalty against Mexico the other day, and blah blether blah.
              The Guardian
              6
              Those early midwives would have been mightily bemused by the modern-day blether around co-sleeping and controlled crying.
              The Guardian
              7
              By the time he got over there the machine was dropping loads and he didn't get the chance to finish their blether.
              Fresh
              8
              But it's all blethers to think that an indented chin means character.
              The Judge
              9
              You can just sit there blethering all day, and I'll never unbar the door.
              The Scotch Twins
              10
              As Jack afterward said, "They blethered like a lot o' wild geese."
              Stories by English Authors: The Sea
              11
              So him and the new dummy started off; and the king he laughs, and blethers out:
              The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain
              12
              Ye can't hear anything of the blasted, blethering, doddering, glaikit fool-stuff yer maister talks, can ye?
              The Enchanted April
              13
              He is a traitor who links his fortunes with that vile, murderous upstart, that blethering hypocrite, Oliver Cromwell.
              John Enderby
              14
              They made puir Rabbie Burns an anything-arian, wi' their blethers, an' he was near gaun the same gate.
              Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
              15
              Wha'd be fashed wi' sic blethers?
              Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
              16
              "Lord, now she's blethering about fortune again," cried the mother, turning round.
              Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 03
              Frequent collocations
              Translations for blether
              Blether through the time