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"ref": "1627, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems",
"text": "A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.",
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},
{
"ref": "1907, Neil Munro, Daft Days",
"text": "‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’",
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"ref": "2002 December 23, Daily Mail",
"text": "He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.",
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"A hard, often wild kick of a ball."
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"(slang) A hard, often wild kick of a ball."
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"A ball kicked in such a way."
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"(slang) A ball kicked in such a way."
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"An unattractive woman."
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"(slang, Scotland) An unattractive woman."
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"text": "There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it.",
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"ref": "1913, J. Service, The Memorables of Robin Cummell",
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"(possibly obsolete) To talk foolishly, to babble."
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"To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner."
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"(possibly obsolete) To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner."
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"ref": "2001 August 19, Glasgow Sunday Herald",
"text": "We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.",
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"To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner."
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"(slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner."
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{
"ref": "1990, J. Byrne, Your Cheatin' Heart",
"text": "A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.",
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"To smash; to bludgeon."
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"(slang) To smash; to bludgeon."
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"text": "A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.",
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},
{
"ref": "1907, Neil Munro, Daft Days",
"text": "‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’",
"type": "quotation"
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"ref": "1999 July 13, Glasgow Daily Record",
"text": "Women go into pubs... to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.",
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"(now slang) A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool."
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"(slang) A hard, often wild kick of a ball."
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"A ball kicked in such a way."
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"(slang) A ball kicked in such a way."
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"(slang, Scotland) An unattractive woman."
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"(slang) To do poor work, to botch (a job)."
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"text": "Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’",
"type": "quotation"
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"To talk foolishly, to babble."
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"(possibly obsolete) To talk foolishly, to babble."
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"text": "The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo.",
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"To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner."
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"(possibly obsolete) To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner."
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"(slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner."
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"text": "A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.",
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