blather
verb
[ ˈblaðə ]
• talk in a long-winded way without making very much sense.
• "she began blathering on about spirituality and life after death"
Similar:
prattle,
babble,
chatter,
twitter,
prate,
gabble,
jabber,
go on,
run on,
rattle on/away,
yap,
jibber-jabber,
patter,
blether,
blither,
maunder,
ramble,
drivel,
yak,
yackety-yak,
yabber,
yatter,
witter,
rabbit,
chunter,
natter,
waffle,
slabber,
mag,
twaddle,
clack,
twattle,
blather
noun
• long-winded talk with no real substance.
• "all the blather coming out of Washington about crime"
Similar:
prattle,
chatter,
twitter,
babble,
talk,
prating,
gabble,
jabber,
blether,
rambling,
nonsense,
balderdash,
gibberish,
claptrap,
rubbish,
yackety-yak,
yabbering,
yatter,
tripe,
twaddle,
hogwash,
baloney,
drivel,
bilge,
bosh,
bull,
bunk,
guff,
eyewash,
piffle,
poppycock,
phooey,
hooey,
malarkey,
dribble,
rot,
wittering,
nattering,
chuntering,
cobblers,
codswallop,
stuff and nonsense,
tosh,
cack,
havers,
garbage,
flapdoodle,
blathers,
wack,
bushwa,
applesauce,
bunkum,
tommyrot,
cod,
gammon,
toffee,
clack,
twattle,
shit,
bullshit,
horseshit,
crap,
bollocks,
balls,
bulldust,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra ‘talk nonsense’, from blathr ‘nonsense’.
