Daughter gave me this one the other day. There's a certain acquaintance of ours who fits the bill and we had individually suffered at his
Anyway here it is:
Blatherskite
blath·er·skite [blath-er-skahyt]
noun
1.
a person given to voluble, empty talk.
2.
nonsense; blather.
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Origin:
1640–50; blather + skite skate
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blath·er·skite
/ˈblaT͟Hərˌskīt/
noun
noun: blatherskite; plural noun: blatherskites; noun: bletherskate; plural noun: bletherskates
1.
a person who talks at great length without making much sense.
•foolish talk; nonsense.
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And yes, we used the word blather a lot in Cork, as in: "Oh she's full of the blather" or "At the bar, he blathered on and on."
But to actually find a noun, a glorious noun to fit the one who's doing the blather?
Brilliant she is.
Wish my Dad was still with us - I'd be able to tell him he could call someone a blatherskite instead of a blathering idiot!
ReplyDeleteTake care
Cathy
WWW:
ReplyDeleteI've oft heard rants and blather
From silly folks who I'd rather
Ignore on all my days and nights -
Those dull and boring blatherskites!
Marc
Love it
ReplyDeleteand it immediately
brings to mind
several
and will not mention
their names...
A good word. I also like gasbag and motor-mouth. And of course that lovely phrase, She could talk the leg off a donkey.
ReplyDeleteYou will be surprised as to how many blatherskites I have in my life. I am now an expert in avoiding them. I wonder if there is an equivalent for someone who writes a great deal of balderdash.
ReplyDeleteBlatherskite sounds like verbal diarrhoea, I wonder if they are sisters of drivel?
ReplyDeleteIt's a fair while since I heard this word spoken, though I see it now and then online. Blatherer is a more common beast in my experience, but it lacks the force of that great -skite bit, with its strong echo of a very Irish swear word.
ReplyDeletePoor conversationalists who love to talk.
ReplyDeleteBlather has long been a favorite word of mine.
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