blether

Example Sentences

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Julie said Caroline was "so big on family" and described her as a "wee blether" who loved to chat.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2023

Karl rang up Seamus Heaney to point out a mistake in a stanza: ‘Scottish sheep don’t chatter – they blether’

From The Guardian • Sep. 21, 2019

She was always late for class in the morning because she would stay back at breakfast club to blether.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2019

“When the flats were new, everybody knew their neighbours, your door was always open and you’d always stop for a blether when you passed someone on the stairs,” she said.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2015

I've naither wife nor wain, chick nor chile, I ate th' bread ov loneliness an' keep m' own company an' jist bekase I don't blether wi' th' gossoons th' think I'm uncanny.

From My Lady of the Chimney Corner by Irvine, Alexander