blather

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈblæðə(ɹ)/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• rhymes with -æðə(ɹ)
  Play
• CMU ARPABET: B L AE1 DH ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
  Play

From Middle English bletheren, bloderen, from Old Norse blaðra (“to speak inarticulately, talk nonsense”). Cognate with Scots blether, bladder, bledder (“to blather”), dialectal German bladdern (“to talk nonsense, blather”), Norwegian bladra (“to babble, speak imperfectly”), Icelandic blaðra (“to twaddle”).

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: لَغْو (laḡw) — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Bulgarian: плямпане (pljampane) — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Bulgarian: дърдорене (dǎrdorene) — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Czech: tlachy — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Czech: žvásty — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Esperanto: babilaĉo — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Esperanto: vortlakso — foolish or nonsensical talk
• German: Gequatsche — foolish or nonsensical talk
• German: Gequassel — foolish or nonsensical talk
• German: Gelabere — foolish or nonsensical talk
• German: Laberei — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Macedonian: дрдорење (drdorenje) — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Polish: bredzenie — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Ukrainian: базі́кання (bazíkannja) — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Ukrainian: балакани́на (balakanýna) — foolish or nonsensical talk
• Arabic: بَقَّ (baqqa) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Bulgarian: плямпам (pljampam) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Bulgarian: говоря празни приказки (govorja prazni prikazki) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Czech: pindat — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Czech: žvanit — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Czech: mlít — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Czech: tlachat — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Danish: skvadre — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Danish: jappe — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Danish: pludre — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Esperanto: babilaĉi — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Finnish: lörpötellä — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Finnish: pälpättää — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Finnish: pölistä — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Finnish: kaakattaa — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• French: déblatérer — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• French: dégoiser — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• German: quasseln — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• German: quatschen — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• German: sabbeln — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Irish: bí ag glaigearacht — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Italian: blaterare — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Italian: sproloquiare — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Italian: straparlare — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Ladino: shushurrear — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Macedonian: дрдори (drdori) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Māori: kunanu — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Polish: bajtlować — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Polish: zbajtlować — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Portuguese: tagarelar — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Romanian: bodogăni — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Russian: тарато́рить (taratóritʹ) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Russian: треща́ть (treščátʹ) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Russian: трепа́ться (trepátʹsja) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Scottish Gaelic: bleadraig — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Serbo-Croatian: blebetati — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Serbo-Croatian: brbljati — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Spanish: despotricar — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Swedish: pladdra — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Tamil: உளறு (uḷaṟu) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Tamil: பேத்து (pēttu) — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Turkish: çene çalmak — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Turkish: gevezelik etmek — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Turkish: saçmalamak — to talk rapidly without making much sense
• Turkish: zevzeklik etmek — to talk rapidly without making much sense