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vlother

vlother noun: nonsense; incoherent or nonsensical talk.

Noun

vlother (uncountable)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Nonsense; incoherent or nonsensical talk.
    • "What, in the fiend's name, be the meaning of all this vlother? " peevishly exclaimed the miller, though still keeping his voice within the prescribed pitch […]1839, Windshaw, The Wizard of Windhsaw, a Tale of the Seventeenth Century, page 204
    • "'Od's nonsense and vlother! How did he account for 't ? Cows short o' water, I'll be bound. Thic be a likely tale, when we gets short milk, an' poor milk, skimmed to death.[…]"1912, W. H. Kersey, The Darksome Maids of Bagleere: A Somerset Tale, page 166

Examples of vlother in a sentence

  • Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor!1922, Samuel Robinson Littlewood, Somerset and the Drama, page 89:
  • […] all of a vlother; 'e couldn' get no sleep 'count of its hollerings and carryings on.[…]2016 October 4, Joan Aiken, The Weeping Ash, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:

Origin of vlother

Regarded by the English Dialect Dictionary as a dialectal form of flother; see that entry for more.

Questions about vlother

What does vlother mean?
Vlother means nonsense; incoherent or nonsensical talk.
How do you use vlother in a sentence?
Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor!
What part of speech is vlother?
Vlother is a noun.

Words near vlother in the dictionary

  1. VLOPs
  2. Vlorë
  3. VLOS
  4. VLOSE
  5. VLOSEs
  6. vlother
  7. VLP
  8. VLPs
  9. VLQ
  10. VLR
  11. VLRs

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