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noun: "nonsensical talk", an obsolete usage particular to the area of Lancashire
"nonsensical talk"? or rather ~"froth"? or state of agitation or disarray?
- 1809, Thomas Donaldson, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect / Both Humourous and Entertaining:
- Ye windy, rhymin', bleth'rin hash, Ye'll tak in woo' to card to trash; Ye rhyme 'bout thrums an' wabs thegither, A hotchy potchy in a flother.
- state of agitation or disarray?
- 2021, Julia Goodman, You brand: A Manual for Confidence:
- So if you lose your way, notes like these are worse than useless, and are likely set you off into a flother of paper shuffling and awkwardness.
- a different sense; the writer was from southern England (something in the vein of 'froth'? cf. the snowy sense discussed on Talk:flother. or perhaps the 'state of agitation/disarray' sense?)
1909, Alice Dudeney ("Mrs. Henry Dudeney"), Rachel Lorian:She sat by the fire; the ash—of the note book to Patrick—lay in a flother on the hot bricks.