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Talking at length while saying nothing worth remembering.
means To talk on and on in a foolish, rambling way, producing lots of words and little sense.
from Blather came into English from Old Norse 'blaðra', meaning to talk nonsense or chatter, and it rode in with other Scandinavian imports during the Viking settlements in Britain. Scots dialect kept it alive and gave it extra flavor (see also 'blatherskite,' a wonderfully contemptuous term for a windy talker), and it eventually spread south into general English, still smelling faintly of the ale-house ramble it probably once described.
- origin
- from Old Norse blathra, meaning to talk nonsense
- key trait
- volume of words, not value
- related word
- blatherskite, a professional-grade talker of nonsense
- best test
- if summary equals original length, it is blather