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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
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By the time he got over there the machine was dropping loads and he didn't get the chance to finish their blether.
Fresh
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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
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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