blootering
blootering is the present participle and gerund of blooter.
Meaning of blooter
Verb
blooter (third-person singular simple present blooters, present participle blootering, simple past and past participle blootered)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- To smash; to bludgeon.
- A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.1990, J. Byrne, Your Cheatin' Heart
Questions about blootering
- What is blootering the present participle and gerund of?
- Blootering is the present participle and gerund of blooter.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: blootering (page history and authors); blooter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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