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To blether is to talk on and on about things that are not important. The word belongs especially to Scotland. A Scottish speaker might say someone is blethering when they are chatting, gossiping, or filling the air with pleasant nonsense. It can be a verb (to blether) and also a noun for the talk itself (a bit of blether). The feeling is usually light, not cruel: you can like a person and still say they like a good blether. Outside Scotland it sounds marked and folksy. In the rest of the English-speaking world people are more likely to say chatter, ramble, or blather — and blather is the close cousin, with a slightly ruder life in general English.
(尤用於蘇格蘭)閒扯、瞎聊、講些無關緊要的話
組成This word does not split into English pieces you can see. It is the Scottish form of the same idle-talk word as blather, and it probably comes from an old northern root for talking nonsense.
同家族的字
- blatherthe more widely used cousin, same idea of empty or silly talk
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。