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词源 1

源自中古英语 bletheren、bloderen，源自古诺尔斯语 blaðra (“说胡话”)。与低地苏格兰语 blether、bladder、bledder (“胡扯”)，德语方言bladdern (“说胡话”)、挪威语 bladra (“含糊不清地说”)、冰岛语 blaðra (“说废话”)同源。

其他形式

• blether (英国北部, 苏格兰, 爱尔兰北部)

发音

• (标准英音) IPA^(帮助)：/blæðə(ɹ)/

• （英国）音频

• 韵部：-æðə(ɹ)

动词

blather（第三人称单数简单现在时 blathers，现在分词 blathering，一般过去时及过去分词 blathered）

1. (不及物, 贬义) 喋喋不休地胡扯
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   • 2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Pot-Bellied Seahorse”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York, N.Y.: Grove Atlantic, 2014, section 5:^[1]

     On and on he blathered, taking refuge in the one thing he felt lent him superiority: words.

2. (及物, 贬义) 胡说道，乱讲说
   • 1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, Act I, scene i, page 31:^[2]

     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!

   • 1974, Robert Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow, part 3, page 214:^[3]

     […] the church attitude has never been that a teacher should be allowed to blather anything that comes into his head without any accountability at all.

衍生词汇

名词

blather（不可数）

1. (贬义) 胡话，蠢话
   • 1897, G. A. Henty, With Moore at Corunna, New York: Scribner, Chapter 1, p. 16,^[4]

     That is the worst of being in an Irish regiment, nothing can be done widout ever so much blather;

   • 1922, Rafael Sabatini, Captain Blood, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 23, p. 265,^[5]

     Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?

   • 1995, Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, Part 5, p. 280,^[6]

     With years of proofreading under my belt, I knew exactly the blather and bluster favoured by professional politicians.

近义词

• 参见Thesaurus:chatter

词源 2

名词

blather（复数 blathers）

1. bladder 的弃用形式。
   • 1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,^[7]

     […] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe

     A blather, where the windes imboweld were,

异序词

• Barthel, Halbert, halbert