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Definition of Blathered
1. blather [v] - See also: blather
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blathered
Literary usage of Blathered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood: Illustrated by Conversations and by C. Clough Robinson (1862)
"Spattered trowsers are said to be " blathered." " A blathering tongue" is in the
head of a person who makes a point of telling everything he or she knows ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1882)
"... and blathered (bemired) ino all over ' [Ее gaav u gri'h't ploj' wiv iz' fi'h't, ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"An awful example your practice affords To those you are apt to pooh-pooh—us poor
Lords ! Dear ! dear ! Half the bores in your Chamber have blathered, ..."
4. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"... whose blathered bluster Can set such spites abroad; win jibes for wages.
God who did tax not Longus' sin,* respected That blind centurion beneath the ..."
5. Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with His by George Catlin (1848)
"No, I '11 be blathered if I do that! I Ve got a good hold now, and I might not
get it again. Lay down the book and I '11 let you go, and not before. ..."
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