Word.ws English Dictionary

blother

blother is the obsolete form of blather.

Meaning of blather

Verb

blather (third-person singular simple present blathers, present participle blathering, simple past and past participle blathered)

  1. (derogatory, intransitive) To talk rapidly without making much sense.
    • “There you go blatherin’,” said Brindle, intending a mild rebuke.1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XI, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 249
  2. (derogatory, transitive) To say (something foolish or nonsensical); to say (something) in a foolish or overly verbose way.
    • Then, just before the wedding, the old man feels he’s honor bound to tell his future son-in-law the secret of his past; so the damned idiot blathers the whole story of his killing the man and breaking jail!1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, act I, scene i, page 31

See all 3 meanings of blather

Forms of blother

third-person singular presentblothers
present participleblothering
past participleblothered
pastblothered

Questions about blother

What is blother the obsolete form of?
Blother is the obsolete form of blather.

Words near blother in the dictionary

  1. blotchless
  2. blotchwork
  3. blotchy
  4. blote
  5. blotes
  6. blother
  7. blothered
  8. blothering
  9. blothers
  10. blotless
  11. blotlessness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blother (page history and authors); blather (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “blother.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/blother. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.