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?

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blatteroon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)