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Mar 10, 2023
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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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