BLETHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blether mean? 

• BLETHER (noun)
  The noun BLETHER has 1 sense:

1. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

  Familiarity information: BLETHER used as a noun is very rare.

• BLETHER (verb)
  The verb BLETHER has 1 sense:

1. to talk foolishly

  Familiarity information: BLETHER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLETHER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

blether; chin music; idle talk; prate; prattle

Hypernyms ("blether" is a kind of...):

cackle; chatter; yack; yak; yakety-yak (noisy talk)

Derivation:

blether (to talk foolishly)

• BLETHER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they blether    ... he / she / it blethers   
Past simple: blethered   
Past participle: blethered   
-ing form: blethering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

To talk foolishly

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter

Context example:

The two women babbled and crooned at the baby

Hypernyms (to "blether" is one way to...):

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

blether (idle or foolish and irrelevant talk)