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Mar 10, 2023
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blatteroon

blatteroon
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blatteroon

PRONUNCIATION:
(blat-uh-ROON)

MEANING:
noun: A babbler.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin blaterare (to babble). Earliest documented use: 1647.

USAGE:
“Watch your tongue, you blatteroon!”
Gavin Wood; Tales of the Jacobite Grenadiers; AuthorHouse; 2016.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule -- we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us were any other species in our dominant position. -Christine Stevens, activist and conservationist (10 Mar 1918-2002)

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