blooter

English

Alternative forms

• bluiter (archaic)

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Noun

blooter (plural blooters)

1. (now slang) A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.
   • 1627, Alexander Montgomerie, Poems:

     A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.

   • 1907, Neil Munro, Daft Days:

     ‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’

   • 1999 July 13, Glasgow Daily Record:

     Women go into pubs... to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.

2. (slang) A hard, often wild kick of a ball.
   • 2002 December 23, Daily Mail:

     He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.

3. (slang) A ball kicked in such a way.
4. (slang, Scotland) An unattractive woman.

Verb

blooter (third-person singular simple present blooters, present participle blootering, simple past and past participle blootered)

1. (slang) To do poor work, to botch (a job).
   • 1996, M. Munro, Complete Patter:

     There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it.

2. (possibly obsolete) To talk foolishly, to babble.
   • 1913, J. Service, The Memorables of Robin Cummell:

     Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’

3. (possibly obsolete) To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner.
   • 1793, R. Brown, Carlop Green:

     The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo.

4. (slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.
   • 2001 August 19, Glasgow Sunday Herald:

     We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.

5. (slang) To smash; to bludgeon.
   • 1990, J. Byrne, Your Cheatin' Heart:

     A hauf-inch closer an' that wis me... brains blootered aw err the tarmac.

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