blatteroon

English

Etymology

From Latin blatero + -onis.

Noun

blatteroon (plural blatteroons)

1. (obsolete) A senseless babbler or boaster.
   • 1868, Jonathan Franklin Chesley Hayes, History of the City of Lawrence, page 67:

     Unfortunately, at that time there was an Irish blatteroon residing temporarily here, who had been exceedingly impudent in his talks upon the street.

   • 1887, Paul Cushing, Doctor Cæsar Crowl, mind-curer:

     Warn't ^[sic] it a kind of lingo that some old ancient blatteroons spouted?

Related terms

• blatter

References

• “blatteroon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.