Meanings
- UKdialectaluncountableNonsense; incoherent or nonsensical talk.
[…] all of a vlother; 'e couldn' get no sleep 'count of its hollerings and carryings on.[…]
2016 October 4, Joan Aiken, The Weeping Ash, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN3 more examples
"What, in the fiend's name, be the meaning of all this vlother? " peevishly exclaimed the miller, though still keeping his voice within the prescribed pitch […]
1839, Windshaw, The Wizard of Windhsaw, a Tale of the Seventeenth Century, page 204"'Od's nonsense and vlother! How did he account for 't ? Cows short o' water, I'll be bound. Thic be a likely tale, when we gets short milk, an' poor milk, skimmed to death.[…]"
1912, W. H. Kersey, The Darksome Maids of Bagleere: A Somerset Tale, page 166Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor! Hear enough o't daylight, I count, 'thouse buttowling about down round there, darkynight, a-gaping at a stage! Thee bissen gwain thee ownzelf, bist, Farmer?" "I gwain!" said Farmer Boggis."
1922, Samuel Robinson Littlewood, Somerset and the Drama, page 89
Origin
Regarded by the English Dialect Dictionary as a dialectal form of flother; see that entry for more.
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