blatteroon

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noun

A senseless babbler or boaster.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounblatteroon (plural blatteroons)

plural blatteroons

  1. 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-curer
    1 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

  1. Latinblatero
  2. Englishblatteroon

From Latin blatero + -onis.

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Chicago

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