Meaning

(now slang) A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now slang) A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.
2. (slang) A hard, often wild kick of a ball.
3. (slang) A ball kicked in such a way.
4. (slang, Scotland) An unattractive woman.
5. (slang) To do poor work, to botch (a job).
6. (possibly obsolete) To talk foolishly, to babble.
7. (possibly obsolete) To shriek, to cry in a shrill manner.
8. (slang) To kick a ball in a hard and usually wild manner.

Example Sentences

A bluiter buskit lyk a belly blind.

‘Oh, to the devil wi' ye!’ said Wanton Wully, sweating with vexation. ‘Of all the senseless bells! A big, boss bluiter! I canna compel nor coax ye!’

Women go into pubs... to enjoy a quiet drink with friends. And any halitosis-ridden, hand-wandering blooter who thinks otherwise could find himself stuck up his own optic.

He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers.

There's no way that hoose could be painted right in wan day; they must've blootered it.

Jamie […] at last bluitered oot [em] ‘I-I-I was up the water, sir, fellin' a deid dowg!’

The whaup, frae the south, that bluiters / In the bogs, like a soo.

We'd blooter the ball into the terracing.

Word Forms

• blooters
• bluiter
• blootering
• blootered

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