blatteroon

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English

Etymology

From Latin blatero + -onis.

Noun

blatteroon (plural blatteroons)

  1. (obsolete) A senseless babbler or boaster.
    • 1868, Jonathan Franklin Chesley Hayes, History of the City of Lawrence, page 67:
      Unfortunately, at that time there was an Irish blatteroon residing temporarily here, who had been exceedingly impudent in his talks upon the street.
    • 1887, Paul Cushing, Doctor Cæsar Crowl, mind-curer:
      Warn't it a kind of lingo that some old ancient blatteroons spouted?

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