blither/blather/blether
Aug. 14th, 2006 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordblither/blather/blether - v., to talk nonsense. n., nonsensical talk.
Both in the sense of not making sense and gibberish. The root is Old Norse blathra. Which variant one uses seems to be dialectical; I notice that I usually blather on but use blither as the noun (and blithering as the participial adjective, as in "blithering idiot"), and never blether.
---L.
Both in the sense of not making sense and gibberish. The root is Old Norse blathra. Which variant one uses seems to be dialectical; I notice that I usually blather on but use blither as the noun (and blithering as the participial adjective, as in "blithering idiot"), and never blether.
---L.
