[f. prec., or a. ON. blaðr nonsense.] Voluble talk void of sense.

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1787.  Burns, Vision, iv. Stringin blethers up in rhyme, For fools to sing.

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1843.  Mrs. Carlyle, in Lett., I. 257. Untormented by his blether.

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1863.  Tyneside Songs, 36. ’Mang the noise and the blether.

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1865.  Richmond (U.S.) Exam., in Morn. Star, 3 Feb. All the eloquence and all the blather in the world will not alter the facts.

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