blooter

plural blooters · alternative bluiter

1. slangA babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.

   A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.

   1627, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems

   2 more examples

   ‘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!’

   1907, Neil Munro, Daft Days

   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.

   1999 July 13, Glasgow Daily Record

2. slangA hard, often wild kick of a ball.

   He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.

   2002 December 23, Daily Mail

3. slangA ball kicked in such a way.
4. ScotlandslangAn unattractive woman.

present singular third person blooters · participle present blootering · participle past blootered · past blootered · alternative bluiter

1. slangTo do poor work, to botch (a job).

   There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it.

   1996, M. Munro, Complete Patter

2. obsoletepossiblyTo talk foolishly, to babble.

   Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’

   1913, J. Service, The Memorables of Robin Cummell

3. obsoletepossiblyTo shriek, to cry in a shrill manner.

   The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo.

   1793, R. Brown, Carlop Green

4. slangTo kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.

   We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.

   2001 August 19, Glasgow Sunday Herald

5. slangTo smash; to bludgeon.

   A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.

   1990, J. Byrne, Your Cheatin' Heart