Blather vs Slather - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between blather and slather

is that blather is (pejorative) to talk rapidly without making much sense while slather is to spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.

As nouns the difference between blather and slather

is that blather is (pejorative) nonsensical or foolish talk while slather is (culinary) a thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.

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

slather

English

Noun

(en noun)

(culinary) A thick sauce or spread that is to be slathered (spread thickly) onto food.

Drool (especially if abundant).

* 1983 , Edda: A Collection of Essays (Robert James Glendinning), page 177:

[The river] Ván'' in ''SnE I 21 is mentioned as coming from the slather of the bound Fenris Wolf.

(usually, in the plural) A generous or abundant quantity.

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers , right in the middle of the squiteague season.}}

* 1919 , (Lucy Maud Montgomery), Rainbow Valley , ch. 24,

In her eyes the manse people were quite fabulously rich, and no doubt those girls had slathers of shoes and stockings.

Verb

(en verb)

To spread something thickly on something else; to coat well.

I slathered jam on my toast.

(often followed by with) To apply generously upon.

I slathered my toast with jam.