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Meanings of blither in English

To talk foolishly.

Synonyms
Examples for "babble"
Examples for "babble"
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The babble of a million voices all seeming to talk at once.
Beautiful assassin
2
She expected a babble of noise, a murmur, some level of response.
The darkest road
3
The woman could certainly babble with the best of them, Sarah thought.
Once bitten, twice dead
4
Through it, James could still hear the babble of hundreds of voices.
James Potter and the Curse of the Gatekeeper
5
Not just incoherent baby babble but real expressions of wants and needs.
Song of the Nile
1
Forget all that blather about hybrid warfare and 21st Century asymmetric conflict.
Wired
2
Proposed and seconded by blather reformers; of course, Vern had his go:-
The Eureka Stockade
3
Is this a development of Christian theology, or is it religious blather?
The Irish Times
4
Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'Britain has had a bellyful of Davis's jejune blather.
The Guardian
5
Who will you bore with your endless blather in your new universe?
A nameless witch
1
Beats me what a little smatter of book-learning will do for these redskins.
Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's
2
The languages of Polynesia are easy to smatter, though hard to speak with elegance.
In the South Seas / Being an Account of Experiences and Observat...
3
Mostly, anyway; still more smatter-ships to smashify.
Surface detail
4
Are never wet, he did but smatter:
William Lilly's History of His Life and Times, from the Year 160...
5
She wondered how many more held infestations of the smatter, how much longer they could keep whacking everything that appeared.
Surface detail
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
Usage of blither in English
1
There had never been a blither setting off from the Giant's Cairn.
The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
2
Never had the old King orchard known a blither merrymaking or lighter hearts.
The Story Girl
3
To-night, however, she was even in a blither mood than usual.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
4
Thereupon the dance music began again, even blither than before.
Atlantis
5
But it is not always twilight to him, and there are many blither moods.
Irish Plays and Playwrights
6
If he was to blither, it was only fair that she should bleat back.
Tea-Table Talk
7
These, in the main points, were only market-days of a blither kind than the common.
The Provost
8
And blither than the birds my heart within me.
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
9
Never had the old gray-green house among its enfolding orchards known a blither, merrier afternoon.
Anne's House of Dreams
10
Well, you can want it with a little less blither and a little more manners.
The Judgment House
11
No princess decked her palace with a blither spirit.
The Emigrant Trail
12
Then had Aurelie, and Uther his brother, felled their foes, and were therefore the blither!
Layamon's Brut
13
There was not in all Scotland, just then, a blither or happier woman than Bertha Morton.
Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War
14
This day have ye quenched seven smoking hearths-seeif your own fire burn the blither for that.
The Junior Classics, Volume 5: Stories that never grow old
15
Please feel free to blither now.
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
16
Ere to greet the blither time
A Soldier's Life: Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. R...
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Blither through the time