blatherskite
Meanings
Plural: blatherskites
Noun
- foolish gibberish
- A voluble purveyor of nonsense; a blusterer.
- A worthless fellow; a deadbeat.
- Nonsense or blather; empty talk.
Origin / Etymology
From blather + skite (“shit, shite”). Alternatively the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary asserts that the word is of Scottish origin, with blather/blether + skate referring to someone who is "contemptible". First use of the term dates to the mid-17th century. Compare cheapskate.
Synonyms
absolute zero, absurdity, airbag, all my eye, all my eye and Betty Martin, applesauce, asswipe, babbler, badling, bafflegab, bag of wind, balderdash, balls, baloney, banana oil, Bandini, baragouin, batcrap, batshit, bilgewater, blab, blabberer, blabbermouth, blah, blather, blatherer, blatherskite, bloviator, bobbins, bollocks, bosh, BS, bugger, bull, bull feathers, bullcrap, bulldust, bullshit, bullspeak, bunk, bunkum, bushwah, carrion, chatter-basket, chatterbag, chatterbox, chatterer, chewet, cipher, clamjamfrey, claptrap, cobblers, cockstain, codswallop, crap, crock, crock of shit, crumb, custron, dandiprat, doink, double Dutch, double talk, doublespeak, drivel, eyewash, fellow, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flim-flam, flizz, flummery, folderol, foolishness, footle, framis, fritlag, fuckery, fuckry, fudge, gabbler, galimatias, garbage, garble, gasbag, geek, gibber, gibberish, gobbledygook, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, gossip, Greek, guff, gup, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hokum, hooey, hoon, horse hockey, horse piss, horse puckey, horsefeathers, horseshit, humbug, Irish bull, jabber, jabberer, jangler, jargon, jibber-jabber, jimjam, jive, junk, lallation, lidderon, losel, loser, louse, macaroni, maggot, malarkey, manure, meaninglessness, moonshine, motormouth, mumbo jumbo, ne'er-do-well, nertz, no-good, no-mark, nonce, nonentity, nonsense, nowmun, patterer, pelf, pie in the sky, piffle, pig dog, pigswill, pile of shit, pissant, poppycock, prater, prattle, prattler, punk, puny, put-on, quat, ramp, rattle, rhubarb, rhubarb rhubarb, rigmarole, rinky-dink, roly-poly, rot, rubbish, ruse, santorum, scullion, shit, shite, skimble-skamble, slubberdegullion, sparrow-fart, squit, streak of piss, stuff, stuff and nonsense, toerag, tommy-rot, tongue-pad, tosh, trash, tripe, truant, tush, twaddle, twaddler, twerp, underperson, unworthy, wankstain, wass, waste of space, whiff-whaff, windbag, word salad, yakker, yapper
Scrabble Score: 21
blatherskite is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordblatherskite is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
blatherskite is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary