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BLITHER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does blither mean?
• BLITHER (verb)
The verb BLITHER has 1 sense:
1. to talk foolishly
Familiarity information: BLITHER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
To talk foolishly
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter
Context example:
The two women babbled and crooned at the baby
Hypernyms (to "blither" is one way to...):
blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples
The rooks cawed, and blither birds sang; but nothing was so merry or so musical as my own rejoicing heart.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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