blathering
noun
[ ˈblað(ə)rɪŋ ]
• the action of talking long-windedly without making very much sense.
• "now stop your blathering and get back to work"
blather
verb
• 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,
Origin:
late Middle English (as a verb; originally Scots and northern English dialect): from Old Norse blathra ‘talk nonsense’, from blathr ‘nonsense’.
