Citations:blatherskite

English citations of blatherskite

Noun: "a voluble purveyor of nonsense"

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a. 1685, Francis Semple, “Maggie Lauder”, in Alexander Whitelaw, editor, The Book of Scottish Song, London: Blackie and Son, published 1843, page 259:
Eight scornfully she answer'd him, / Begone you hallanshaker! / Jog on your gate, you bladderskate, / My name is Maggie Lauder.
1888 July 29, New York Herald:
Every blatherskite republican is filled to the brim and spouting high protection, while the democrats are not prepared to meet them for want of documents.
1888, Margaret Deland, John Ward, Preacher‎, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co:
I always liked Gifford as a boy, he was such a manly fellow, and no blatherskite, talking his elders to death. He never had much to say, and when he did talk it was to the point.
1889, Mark Twain, “Slow Torture”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court‎, New York: Charles L. Webster & Company:
She never had any ideas, any more than a fog has. She was a perfect blatherskite; I mean for jaw, jaw, jaw, talk, talk, talk, jabber, jabber, jabber; but just as good as she could be.
1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 32, in Babbitt:
Babbitt was frightened, but he had an agonized instinct that if he yielded in this he would yield in everything. He protested: “You're exaggerating, Colonel. I believe in being broad-minded and liberal, but, of course, I'm just as much agin the cranks and blatherskites and labor unions and so on as you are. ”
1951 July 14, The Wearing of the Grin, spoken by O'Mike:
Silence in the courtroom, you blatherskite!

Noun: "a worthless fellow"

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1872, Levi Bishop, “Blatherskite”, in Teuchsa Grondie: A Legendary Poem, 2nd edition, Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, pages 546–547:
Who social circle ape to lead, / Without the solid requisite; / Where high pretension is the creed, / And every look betrays the breed; / Avaunt, ye vulgar blatherskite.
1895, Hall Caine, “Passing the Love of Women”, in The Deemster, London: Chatto & Windus, page 70:
"Blubbering cowards!" "Aw, blatherskites!" "Och, man alive, a pair of turtle-doves!"
1896, Mark Twain, “Tom Sawyer Discovers the Murderers”, in Tom Sawyer, Detective‎:
When that man there, Bruce Dunlap, had most worried the life and sense out of Uncle Silas till at last he plumb lost his mind and hit this other blatherskite, his brother, with a club, I reckon he seen his chance.

Noun: "nonsense or blather"

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1869 March, “Editorial Notes”, in The Michigan University Magazine, volume 3, number 6, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The Students, Politics in the University, page 235:
Of course there is no answering such blatherskite as this, and we can only allude to it as a melancholy example of what Michigan politics may bring a man to.
1871 September, “Nebulæ”, in The Galaxy, volume 12, number 3, page 459:
Talking of the English, there is one very contemptible bit of blatherskite about them which we are sorry to see in Vogue, and apparently gaining ground.
1894 February, “English and American Theories”, in Lend a Hand, volume 12, number 2, Boston: J. Stilman Smith & Co, page 88:
Now such a state of affairs as that is unknown in England. To print this statement is to expose ourselves there to the suspicion of blatherskite and exaggeration.

Citations:blatherskite

English citations of blatherskite

Noun: "a voluble purveyor of nonsense"

Noun: "a worthless fellow"

Noun: "nonsense or blather"

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