Meaning of "blooter"

[noreenw]

What does "blooter" mean?

[bravejordy]

A babbler, a bumbling idiot, a fool.

[Quizmonster]

It originally meant 'to beat' in Scottish dialect, but is now generally used in past participle form - 'blootered' - to mean 'drunk'. 'Hammered' is very similar in meaning.

[beejay1124]

in norn iron blootered (as well as drunk) can mean- dead beat(knackered)

[Quizmonster]

I should perhaps have added in my earlier response that I suspect the more modern English word for drunk...'bladdered'...is just a corruption of 'blootered'.

[noreenw]

Thank you all - my Chambers and Scots Dictionaries strangely enough didn't give me a clue.

[taranis]

Scots-English dictionary gives "blooter" as blurt; bungle.

[fagidill]

& Quot ! lol

[noreenw]

Thanks taranis and fagidill.

[weeal]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term =blooter

[noreenw]

Taranis I don,t own a Scots-English, just an elderly edition of Scots Chambers!!