What's the difference between blabber and blather?

Blabber


Definition:

  • (n.) A tattler; a telltale.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Latino millennials are the exact group that Rubio has antagonized the most, because on immigration, Rubio went from being somewhat sympathetic to the plight of undocumented youth to blabbering about closing borders before anything else .

Blather


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indeed, as Brexiteer Boris Johnson dismisses the whole Panama story as the Guardian “blathering”, Mr Cameron could point to the advice of a leading QC, which the TUC publishes on Thursday, which underlines all those EU employment rights which are in fact, very often, all that stands between an otherwise-vulnerable workforce and the footloose global elite.
  • (2) Whatever door of perception that pill is machine-gunning off its hinges, blathering on about the experience through clenched teeth is tedium squared to anyone sober.
  • (3) And because when you have to talk for the sake of talking – which is the job at hand – your blather quotient is going to increase.
  • (4) Professional politicians, and their intellectual menials, will no doubt blather on about “Islamic fundamentalism”, the “western alliance” and “full-spectrum response”.
  • (5) Somehow, a small group of Republican lawmakers have hijacked the national conversation about financial matters to blather about deficits and long-term budgets.
  • (6) Outside this room lurk beheadings and sharia law, a president who is clueless and weak generals blathering away on TV screens.
  • (7) Gameplay The plot may be uninspired fantasy blather, but the side-scrolling brawling is exemplary.
  • (8) "The way that we're living now is good - we're not driven by a desire to get a raise or climb up the ladder because we're pretty much at the top of what we're doing already," he says, and as one-quarter of the most blathered and blogged about band in Britain, he's got a point.
  • (9) "Few people in contemporary art demonstrate much curiosity, and spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another."
  • (10) The pharmacist Homais's blather about progress is drawn with as much ruthless precision as the Blind Man's scrofulous face, Emma's final agony or her husband's uselessness.
  • (11) 3.50pm: Birmingham City's Chris Hughton has been asked if he would be interested in replacing Roy – at Wes Brom, not England (yet) – and blathered on about concentrating on the play-offs.
  • (12) So the Church of England has turned a great opportunity to show why it still had a role as a voice of the voiceless in our divided society into a profoundly dispiriting display of back-biting, bitching and blathering on about health and safety concerns and the lost income from tourists.
  • (13) David Moyes blathering on about how Man Utd's 1-0 defeat to Liverpool was the best under his tenure was a bit rich, reviews Daniel Taylor .
  • (14) And, too, because no matter how much practice you have at blathering and how much boilerplate you can regurgitate, unscripted moments can be as rough on cable heads as on politicians.
  • (15) The majority spend their days blathering on, rather than trying to work out why one artist is more interesting than another, or why one picture works and another doesn't.
  • (16) 4.42pm BST "Currently sitting in an all day professional development class to keep my teaching license," blathers Scott Stricker.
  • (17) It’s a principle that Conservative politicians blathering about conflict with Spain over Gibraltar would do well to study.
  • (18) His famed negotiating technique is to propose an exorbitant figure, then let the producer blather and rail about budgets only to find an eerie silence on the end of the phone.
  • (19) 7.04pm BST "Having cycled through London today I was impressed by the sheer number of jolly Dortmund fans enjoying themselves," blathers Adam Brown.
  • (20) She doesn't do much of the chattering class's news cycle blathering.