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English Dictionary: blether by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
blether
n
  1. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, prattle, idle talk, blether, chin music]
v
  1. to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"
    Synonym(s): babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blather \Blath"er\ (bl[acr][th]"[etil]r), v. i. & t. [imp. & p.
      p. {Blathered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blathering}.] [Written also
      {blether}.] [Icel. bla[edh]ra. Cf. {Blatherskite}.]
      To talk foolishly, or nonsensically. --G. Eliot.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Blather \Blath"er\, n. [Written also {blether}.]
      Voluble, foolish, or nonsensical talk; -- often in the pl.
      --Hall Caine.
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