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blathersome

blathersome adjective: characterised or marked by blathering.

Adjective

blathersome (comparative more blathersome, superlative most blathersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by blathering
    • “Your blathersome chuggwallop of a horse scared mine and now look what's happened!” The men clenched their fists and began to walk towards one another. Sir Gadabout approached them.2008, Martyn Beardsley, Sir Gadabout and the Camelot Calamity
    • If it wasn't for the alcoholic coma I dropped into five years ago (not fun), and the forced rehab that ensued (ditto), I've no reason to think I wouldn't still be drunk, and that this letter would have already spiraled into even more blathersome blather.2009, Jonathan Miles, Dear American Airlines

Forms of blathersome

comparativemore blathersome
superlativemost blathersome

Origin of blathersome

From blather + -some.

Questions about blathersome

What does blathersome mean?
Blathersome means characterised or marked by blathering.
What part of speech is blathersome?
Blathersome is an adjective.

Words near blathersome in the dictionary

  1. blathers
  2. blatherskate
  3. blatherskates
  4. blatherskite
  5. blatherskites
  6. blathersome
  7. blatherstorm
  8. blatherstorms
  9. Blatherwick
  10. Blatherwicks
  11. Blatherwycke

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