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Blather vs Rigmarole - What's the difference?

blather | rigmarole |

As nouns the difference between blather and rigmarole

is that blather is (pejorative) nonsensical or foolish talk while rigmarole is complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.

As a verb blather

is (pejorative) to talk rapidly without making much sense.

blather

English

Alternative forms

* blether

Verb

(en verb)
  • (pejorative) To talk rapidly without making much sense.

    • Derived terms

    * blatherer * blatherskate * blatherskite * blathery

    Noun

    (-)
  • (pejorative) nonsensical or foolish talk

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs

    rigmarole

    English

    Alternative forms

    * rigamarole

    Noun

  • Complex, obsolete procedures; excess steps or activity; needless motion.
    • Have you seen all the rigmarole you have to go through at airport security these days?
  • Nonsense; confused and incoherent talk.
    • 1895' — ''In comes Mitaiele to Lloyd, and told some '''rigmarole about Paatalise (the steward's name) wanting to go and see his family in the bush.'' — , ch XIX
  • * De Quincey
    • Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole .

    Quotations

    ;confused and incoherent talk * 1854 — (Henry David Thoreau), , ch VII *: While you are planting the seed, he cries -- "Drop it, drop it -- cover it up, cover it up -- pull it up, pull it up, pull it up." But this was not corn, and so it was safe from such enemies as he. You may wonder what his rigmarole , his amateur Paganini performances on one string or on twenty, have to do with your planting, and yet prefer it to leached ashes or plaster. * 1880 — (Rosina Bulwer Lytton), , sxn 4 *: His reply did not even allude to the subject, but was a rigmarole about the weather; as if he had been writing to an idiot, who did not require a rational answer to any question they had asked. * 1910 — , , ch XVII * 1915 — (John Buchan), , ch 1 *: He seemed to brace himself for a great effort, and then started on the queerest rigmarole .