Meanings
plural blatteroons
- obsoleteA senseless babbler or boaster.
Warn't ^([sic]) it a kind of lingo that some old ancient blatteroons spouted?
1887, Paul Cushing, Doctor Cæsar Crowl, mind-curer1 more example
Unfortunately, at that time there was an Irish blatteroon residing temporarily here, who had been exceedingly impudent in his talks upon the street.
1868, Jonathan Franklin Chesley Hayes, History of the City of Lawrence, page 67
Origin
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