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blatteroon

blatteroon noun: a senseless babbler or boaster.

Noun

blatteroon (plural blatteroons)

  1. (obsolete) A senseless babbler or boaster.
    • Unfortunately, at that time there was an Irish blatteroon residing temporarily here, who had been exceedingly impudent in his talks upon the street.1868, Jonathan Franklin Chesley Hayes, History of the City of Lawrence, page 67
    • Warn't ^([sic]) it a kind of lingo that some old ancient blatteroons spouted?1887, Paul Cushing, Doctor Cæsar Crowl, mind-curer

Forms of blatteroon

pluralblatteroons

Origin of blatteroon

From Latin blatero + -onis.

Questions about blatteroon

What does blatteroon mean?
Blatteroon means a senseless babbler or boaster.
What part of speech is blatteroon?
Blatteroon is a noun.
What is the plural of blatteroon?
The plural of blatteroon is blatteroons.

Words near blatteroon in the dictionary

  1. blatterer
  2. blatterers
  3. blattering
  4. blatterite
  5. Blatterman
  6. blatteroon
  7. blatteroons
  8. blatters
  9. blatticide
  10. blatticides
  11. blattid

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