"balatron" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1927, The Dalhousie Review - Volume 7, page 65:",
          "text": "If we are \"students of the Balatronic dialect\" — a dialect so called from the \"Balatrons\" or professional buffons who invented most of it — we shall perhaps refer to its users as: — \"Blunderkins, having their heads stuffed with nought but balderdash.",
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          "ref": "1981, Alexander Theroux, Darconville's cat, page 32:",
          "text": "His fat body shook like a balatron, as if his soul, biting for anger at a mouth inadequately circumferential, desired in vain to fret a passage through it.",
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          "ref": "1990, Christopher Maslanka, The Guardian Book of Puzzles, →ISBN, page 52:",
          "text": "But he did not want to look a complete balatron in front of the Rabbi.",
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          "ref": "2015, Peter N. Milligan, Bulls Before Breakfast, →ISBN, page 87:",
          "text": "Anyone who discounts the peril is a self-important, arrogant balatron.",
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