blatherskite
\ BLATH-er-skahyt \, noun;
1.a person given to voluble, empty talk.
2.nonsense; blather.
Quotes:
It seems to me that no one can contemplate this odd creature, this quaint and curious blatherskite , without admiring McClintock, or, at any rate, loving him and feeling grateful to him …
-- Mark Twain, "A Cure for the Blues," 1893
That bubbling, breezy blatherskite , the boisterous bobolink/ Is such a deep philosopher he's far too wise to think.
-- Sam Walter Foss, "Bobolink Philosophy," Back Country Poems , 1892
Origin:
Blatherskite was a popular colloquialism in the U.S. in the early 1800s, thanks in part to a Scottish song called "Maggie Lauder," which featured the word (spelled bletherskate ) and was popular among soldiers during the American Revolutionary War.
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