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Blither

verb
1.
To talk foolishly.  Synonyms: babble, blather, blether, smatter.


Blithe

adjective
1.
Lacking or showing a lack of due concern.
2.
Carefree and happy and lighthearted.  Synonyms: blithesome, light-hearted, lighthearted, lightsome.  "A merry blithesome nature" , "Her lighthearted nature" , "Trilling songs with a lightsome heart"



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"Blither" Quotes from Famous Books



... home for dinner; it'll gi'e me an appetite," Master Gammon said solemnly, and he marched away in his serious Sunday hat and careful coat, blither than usual. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... my poor head turns round. And ye ken langsyne, I am nae great pen-woman, and it is near eleven o'clock o' the night. I am cumming down in good company, and safe—and I had troubles in gaun up whilk makes me blither of travelling wi' kend folk. My cousin, Mrs. Glass, has a braw house here, but a' thing is sae poisoned wi' snuff, that I am like to be scomfished whiles. But what signifies these things, in comparison of the great deliverance ...
— The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott
... merry England is waking as of old, With eyes of blither hazel and hair of brighter gold: For Robin Hood is here again beneath the bursting spray In Sherwood, in Sherwood, ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... But twill not mend for thee nor mee." By this some guest cryes "Ho, the house!" A fresh friend hath a fresh carouse: Still he will drinke, and still be dry, And quaffe with euery company. Saint Martin send him merry mates, To enter at his hostree gates! For a blither lad than he Cannot ...
— Kemps Nine Daies Wonder - Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich • William Kemp
... letters Shining with light: "Thou shalt with this sign Overcome and conquer in thy crying need The fearsome foe." Then faded the light, 95 And joining the herald, journeyed on high Unto the clean-hearted company. The king was the blither, And suffered in his soul less sorrow and anguish, The valiant victor, through the vision fair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
— Old English Poems - Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose • Various


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