Thesaurus entry: blather

Article: Write with a purpose to avoid blather
The Quill;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... category we say too little about, and that's blather. Loosely defined, blather is nonsense. It's twaddle. And when talking ... twaddle, and it wastes time and space. Sometimes blather is simply hot air; other times it's the absence ...

Article: Blathers, Frances E.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 26, 2002 ;     312 words ...Blathers, Frances E. Wednesday, June 26, 2002 Blathers, Frances E. Age 92 years. Sat., June 22, 2002. Beloved mother of Rev. David K. (Miriam) Blathers, Elizabeth Slaughter, Juanita Nichols, Bertha Blathers ...

Article: Blathers, Raymond Sr.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 24, 1998 ;     292 words ... ... June 20, 1998. Survived by his wife, Pauline Blathers; his mother, Frances Blathers; 7 children, Patricia, Raymond Jr., Evelyn ... grandchildren, 1 brother, Rev. David (Miriam) Blathers; 5 sisters, Elizabeth Slaughter, Juanita Nichols ...

Article: Blather Blitz
The Washington Post;  October 3, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... Manners identifies it as a social blight that she calls Blather. Blather is rudeness offered without malicious intent. It occurs ... similarly unpleasant effect can be achieved by the urge to blather. The person who asks you if you have any marriage ...

Article: Words: blather, n. and v.
The Independent - London;  December 13, 1999 ;     315 words ... ... improve but, for now, the title should be Blather. Its contending origins suggest that ... the Latin blaterare came blatter, hence blather, current since the early 19th century ... blithering idiot need not be vocal. While blather is the southern and American usage, blether ...

Article: Vidriera's Blather.
Cervantes: Bulletin of the Cervantes Society of America;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... what the one said and the other writes is only blather. That is to say, it is foolish talk, nonsense. The bits that are better than blather are intermixed with blather and so covered by it--battered with blather ...

Article: Blather Here, Blather There
The Washington Post;  April 8, 2000 ;     332 words ... ... bubble-headed" actress Heather Graham, dismissing it as "pure blather" and even suggesting that its author, Bill Zehme, "is going ... detest your subjects, and you must be infatuated with your own blather. --J. W. Moore