Blether

Definition: Blether

Blether

Noun

1. Idle or foolish and irrelevant talk.

Verb

1. To talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Blether

Loquacity

Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking.

Albanian

llafos (blah blah, blather, cosher), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash), flas gjepura (drivel). (various references)

Bulgarian 

говоря глупости (blah blah, blather, bleat, footle), глупости (all my eye, applesauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blah, bleat, boloney, bosh, bull, buncombe, cod, crap, drivel, eyewash, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, footle, fudge, guff, gup, hokum, humbug, jiggery pokery, junk, kibosh, monkey business, monkeybusiness, nonsense, nuts, piffle, poppycock, punk, rhubarb, rot, rubbish, shucks, slush, stuff and nonsense, tack, tommy rot, truck, trumpery), дрънкам празни приказки. (various references)

German

quasseln (babble, blather, gab, gabble, jabber, jabber away, jaw, natter, rabbit on, rattle on, yackety-yak, yak). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"בל (emptiness, futility, steam, vanity, vapor, vapour). (various references)

Hungarian

ostobaságokat beszél (to drivel, to drool, to haver, to maunder, to piffle), ostoba fecsegés (blather, drivel, drool), üres fecsegés (blather, buncombe, bunkum, froth, hot air, jangle, rant, rigmarole, verbiage), üres beszéd (bunk, bunkum, flapdoodle, hot air, palaver, piffle, punk, talk). (various references)

Italian

blaterare (chatter, jabber, rattle on), blateramento, ciance (drivel, prittle prattle). (various references)

Manx

loayrt ommidys. (various references)

Pig Latin

etherblay.(various references)

Portuguese

tagarelice (blab, blather, chat, chatter, chirp chirrup, chitchat, gab, gabble, gossiping, jaw, patter, prate, tittle-tattle), tagarelar (blather, cackle, chat, chatter, chipper, clack, clat, clatter, dodder, gab, gabble, gas, gossip, jabber, jaw, keckle, patter, prate, talk, tattle, tittle-tattle), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, twaddle, unreason, unwisdom). (various references)

Romanian

flecãri (babble, blab, cackle, chatter, gossip, humbug, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tattle, tittle tattle). (various references)

Russian 

трещать (crack, crackle, rattle), говорить чепуху/ чепуха (blather), болтовня (badinage, banter, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), болтать вздор (blather, blither). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

besmislica (applesauce, balderdash, blah, bosh, bull, bunkum, double dutch, double talk, extravagance, fiddlestick, flubdub, mush, nonsense, pointlessness, ruck, tosh), govoriti besmislice (double talk). (various references)

Spanish

tontería de omisión (blather), contar bolas, absurdo (absurd, absurdity, absurdness, absurdum, blah, farce, farcical, incongruous, irrational, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous, screwy, silly, wacky). (various references)

Swedish

pladdra (babble, chatter, clack, clutter, gab, gabble, gaggle, jabber, jibber, prate, prattle), munväder (lip service). (various references)

Thai

พู�"โง่ๆ หรือเรื่อยเจื้อย. (various references)

Turkish

zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot, twaddle), saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, drivel, drool, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, twaddle, waffle, yap), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, twaddle, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma sapan konuşmak (blather, piffle, talk nonsense, talk wild, tell a long rigmarole, twaddle, yak). (various references)

Ukrainian

верзіння, молоти дурниці (blah blah), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự nói bậy bạ (blather), sự ba hoa rỗng tuếch (blather). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "blether": blethered, blethering, blethers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Blether" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bether, Blecher, Bleher, Bletcher, blethed, bletherer, blethers, Blethyn, bluther, Bolletieri, brether, Llethyr. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: belter, bethel, treble.

-2 letters: beret, berth, betel, ether, lethe, rebel, relet, thebe, there, three.

-3 letters: beer, beet, belt, beth, blet, bree, hebe, heel, herb, here, herl, leer, leet, lehr, reel, rete, teel, tele, thee, tree.

-4 letters: bee, bel, bet, eel, ere, eth, her, het, lee, let, reb, ree, ret, tee, tel, the.

-5 letters: be, eh.

+1 letter: blethers.

+2 letters: blathered, blatherer, blethered, blithered, heritable.

+3 letters: bellwether, blatherers, blethering, breathable, breathless, tetherball.

+4 letters: bellwethers, bleacherite, breechcloth, breechclout, establisher, halterbreak, halterbroke, harvestable, inheritable, leatherback, reestablish, shelterbelt, stretchable, tetherballs.

+5 letters: alphabetizer, bachelorette, bigheartedly, blatherskite, bleacherites, breathlessly, breechcloths, breechclouts, establishers, halterbreaks, halterbroken, hypermutable, leatherbacks, merchantable, preestablish, rehabilitate, rehydratable, shelterbelts, thermolabile, thermostable, thimbleberry, throttleable, unbreathable, whortleberry.