vlother

English

Etymology

Regarded by the English Dialect Dictionary as a dialectal form of flother; see that entry for more.

Noun

vlother (uncountable)

1. (UK, dialectal) Nonsense; incoherent or nonsensical talk.
   • 1839, Windshaw, The Wizard of Windhsaw, a Tale of the Seventeenth Century, page 204:

     "What, in the fiend's name, be the meaning of all this vlother? " peevishly exclaimed the miller, though still keeping his voice within the prescribed pitch […]

   • 1912, W. H. Kersey, The Darksome Maids of Bagleere: A Somerset Tale, page 166:

     "'Od's nonsense and vlother! How did he account for 't ? Cows short o' water, I'll be bound. Thic be a likely tale, when we gets short milk, an' poor milk, skimmed to death. […] "

   • 1922, Samuel Robinson Littlewood, Somerset and the Drama, page 89:

     Zecond thing: what 'st think volk 'ud want to bide and hark to such vlother vor! Hear enough o't daylight, I count, 'thouse buttowling about down round there, darkynight, a-gaping at a stage! Thee bissen gwain thee ownzelf, bist, Farmer?" "I gwain!" said Farmer Boggis."

   • 2016 October 4, Joan Aiken, The Weeping Ash, Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN:

     […] all of a vlother; 'e couldn' get no sleep 'count of its hollerings and carryings on. […]