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blooter

blooter noun: a babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.

Noun

blooter (plural blooters)

  1. (slang) A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.
    • A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.1627, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems
    • ‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’1907, Neil Munro, Daft Days
  2. (slang) A hard, often wild kick of a ball.
    • He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.2002 December 23, Daily Mail
  3. (slang) A ball kicked in such a way.
  4. (Scotland, slang) An unattractive woman.

Verb

blooter (third-person singular simple present blooters, present participle blootering, simple past and past participle blootered)

  1. (slang) To do poor work, to botch (a job).
    • There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it.1996, M. Munro, Complete Patter
  2. (obsolete, possibly) To talk foolishly, to babble.
    • Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’1913, J. Service, The Memorables of Robin Cummell
  3. (obsolete, possibly) To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner.
    • The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo.1793, R. Brown, Carlop Green
  4. (slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.
    • We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.2001 August 19, Glasgow Sunday Herald
  5. (slang) To smash; to bludgeon.
    • A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.1990, J. Byrne, Your Cheatin' Heart

Forms of blooter

Noun
pluralblooters
alternative formbluiter
Verb
third-person singular presentblooters
present participleblootering
past participleblootered
pastblootered

Questions about blooter

What does blooter mean?
Blooter means a babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.
What part of speech is blooter?
Blooter can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of blooter?
The plural of blooter is blooters.

Words near blooter in the dictionary

  1. Bloorian
  2. bloosme
  3. bloosmed
  4. bloosmes
  5. bloosming
  6. blooter
  7. blootered
  8. blootering
  9. blooters
  10. blooth
  11. blooths

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