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"ref": "1929, Eugene O’Neill, Dynamo, New York, N.Y.: Liveright, act I, scene i, page 31:",
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"ref": "1974, Robert M[aynard] Pirsig, chapter 18, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, New York, N.Y.: William Morrow & Company, →ISBN, part 3, page 214:",
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"roman": "bazíkannja",
"sense": "foolish or nonsensical talk",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "базі́кання"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "balakanýna",
"sense": "foolish or nonsensical talk",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "балакани́на"
}
],
"word": "blather"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English reporting verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Talking"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "blathers",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "blather (plural blathers)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "bladder"
}
],
"categories": [
"English obsolete forms"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "1596, Charles Fitzgeoffrey, Sir Francis Drake His Honorable Lifes Commendation, and His Tragicall Deathes Lamentation, Oxford: Joseph Barnes,\n[…] on Vlisses Circe did bestowe\nA blather, where the windes imboweld were,"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Obsolete form of bladder."
],
"links": [
[
"bladder",
"bladder#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"word": "blather"
}
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