Spread laughter and positive energy with wordplay! Dictomancy - Everyday Wordplay is a Wednesday blog series that features rare, bizarre, and absurd words and their meanings. Work one of these words into your day and spark some laughter and curiosity.
Blabberskite - n, [Blend of blabber + blatherskite a foolish person] jocular, sometimes derogatory. A talkative, blustering person.
“That stand-up comic last night was such a blabberskite.”
“Politicians are such blabberskites sometimes.”
“Yeah, when he’s drunk, he’s a blabberskite.”
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Works Cited
Cassidy, Frederic G. Chief Editor. Dictionary Of American Regional English. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985. Print.