Twaddle \Twad"dle\, v. i. & t. [See Twattle.]
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties
are decayed; to prate; to prattle. --Stanyhurst.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Twaddle \Twad"dle\, n.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
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I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of
the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and
fighting with fists now-a-days. --T. Hughes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twaddle
n : pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney,
bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle,
tommyrot, tosh]
v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle,
clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle,
blabber, gabble]
WordNet (r) 2.0
106 Moby Thesaurus words for "twaddle":
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage,
bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether,
blethers, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet,
caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap,
clatter, dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle,
fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble,
galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on,
gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air,
humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, malarkey, mere talk,
mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense,
nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle,
poppycock, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle,
ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole,
rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, spout,
spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away,
talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, tommyrot,
trash, trumpery, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle,
waffling, yak, yakkety-yak
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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