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blether

[bleth-er] / ˈblɛð ər /






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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

If she insists on multi-platform, box-ticking, cultural blether, on nationwide searches for top arts talent, we can join forces with other Radio 4 listeners and tell her what's what.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2013

There is a pure Scottish term, which I have always thought more expressive than any English word of ideas connected with manners in society--I mean the word to blether, or blethering, or blethers.

From Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay




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