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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)

  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

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Questions about blootering

What is blootering the present participle and gerund of?
Blootering is the present participle and gerund of blooter.

Words near blootering in the dictionary

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

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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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