Meaning of TWADDLE
| Pronunciation: | | 'twâdul
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- [n] pretentious or silly talk or writing
- [v] speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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| | Synonyms: | | baloney, bilgewater, blab, blabber, boloney, bosh, chatter, clack, drool, gabble, gibber, humbug, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tattle, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, tosh |
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| | See Also: | | babble, blather, blether, blither, hokum, meaninglessness, mouth, nonsense, nonsensicality, smatter, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\Twad"dle\, n.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
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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