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bletherskate

bletherskate is the alternative form of blatherskite.

Meaning of blatherskite

Noun

blatherskite (countable and uncountable, plural blatherskites)

  1. A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
    • She never had any ideas, any more than a fog has. She was a perfect blatherskite; I mean for jaw, jaw, jaw, talk, talk, talk, jabber, jabber, jabber; but just as good as she could be.1889, Mark Twain, “Slow Torture”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, New York: Charles L. Webster & Company
  2. A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
    • Who social circle ape to lead, / Without the solid requisite; / Where high pretension is the creed, / And every look betrays the breed; / Avaunt, ye vulgar blatherskite.1872, Levi Bishop, “Blatherskite”, in Teuchsa Grondie: A Legendary Poem, 2nd edition, Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, pages 546–547
  3. Nonsense or blather; empty talk.
    • Now such a state of affairs as that is unknown in England. To print this statement is to expose ourselves there to the suspicion of blatherskite and exaggeration.1894 February, “English and American Theories”, in Lend a Hand, volume 12, number 2, Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Co, page 88

Forms of bletherskate

pluralbletherskates

Questions about bletherskate

What is bletherskate the alternative form of?
Bletherskate is the alternative form of blatherskite.

Words near bletherskate in the dictionary

  1. bletherer
  2. bletherers
  3. blethering
  4. bletherings
  5. blethers
  6. bletherskate
  7. bletherskates
  8. bletherskite
  9. bletherskites
  10. blets
  11. Bletsoe

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