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Definition of "blatherskite" [blath•er•skite]

  • A babbling, foolish person. (noun)
  • Blather. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "blatherskite" in a sentence
  • "And then there are the funny ones such as ning nong, doofus, blatherskite."
  • "The Tyler Telegram humbly apologizes for having called that wide-lipped blatherskite, T. DeWitt Talmadge, "a religious faker.""
  • "Perot, whose preferred rhetorical mode is the murky expostulation, is what used to be called a blatherskite."