Word Meanings - BLATTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Senseless babble or boasting.

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• BOASTFUL
  Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
• BABBLEMENT
  Babble. Hawthorne.
• BOASTER
  One who boasts; a braggart.
• BOAST
  bausen, bauschen, to swell, pusten, Dan. puste, Sw. pusta, to blow, Sw. pösa to swell; or W. bostio to boast, bost boast, Gael. bosd. But 1. To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of
• BABBLER
  A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on
• BOASTING
  The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display. When boasting ends, then dignity begins. Young.
• BABBLE
  It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter;
• BABBLERY
  Babble. Sir T. More
• BOASTANCE
  Boasting. Chaucer.
• BOASTIVE
  Presumptuous.
• BOASTINGLY
  Boastfully; with boasting. "He boastingly tells you." Burke.
• SENSELESS
  Destitute of, deficient in, or contrary to, sense; without sensibility or feeling; unconscious; stupid; foolish; unwise; unreasonable. You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things. Shak. The ears are senseless that should give us hearing.
• BOASTLESS
  Without boasting or ostentation.
• OUTBABBLE
  To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. Milton.
• BIBBLE-BABBLE
  Idle talk; babble. Shak.