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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
1913 webster
see also:
twattle
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
twaddle \twad"dle\, n.
silly talk; gabble; fustian.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
baloney boloney bilgewater bosh drool humbug
taradiddle tarradiddle tommyrot tosh chatter
piffle palaver prate tittle-tattle clack
maunder prattle blab gibber tattle
blabber gabble
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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