twaddle

4 definitions found

twaddle - 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]

  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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twaddle - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  twaddle
      n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney,
           boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug,
           taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
      v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
           [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle
           , twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab,
           gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

twaddle - 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