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Definition of Twaddle
1. Verb. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. "Sam and Sue twaddle"
Generic synonyms: Mouth, Speak, Talk, Utter, Verbalise, Verbalize
Specialized synonyms: Babble, Blather, Blether, Blither, Smatter
Derivative terms: Blabber, Chatter, Chatterer, Gabble, Palaver, Piffle, Prate, Prater, Prattle, Prattler, Tittle-tattle, Twaddler
2. Noun. Pretentious or silly talk or writing.
Generic synonyms: Bunk, Hokum, Meaninglessness, Nonsense, Nonsensicality
Language type: Argot, Cant, Jargon, Lingo, Patois, Slang, Vernacular
Definition of Twaddle
1. v. i. & t. To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
2. n. Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
Definition of Twaddle
1. Noun. Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish ¹
2. Noun. A twaddler. ¹
3. Verb. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twaddle
1. to talk foolishly [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twaddle
Literary usage of Twaddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Asylum for Fugitive Pieces, in Prose and Verse, Not in Any Other by John Almon (1785)
"... whip, ride headlong 1 implore Your aid to fing the death of Bore, And fing
the birth of twaddle. 'Twas night! 'twas Midnight's filent noon; ..."
2. A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames: With Special American Instances by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley (1901)
"Sq. '• 397- Mr. HJ twaddle announced the changeof his name lo Tweeddale in ...
twaddle. Adam Twede, 1^70: P T. Yorks, p. 196. London, 2; Philadelphia, 9. ..."
3. The Printing of Textile Fabrics: A Practical Manual on the Printing of by Charles Frederick Seymour Rothwell (1897)
"Thus a liquid has a specific gravity of 1-310, and will mark on the twaddle scale—
1 -310 sp. gr. 1-000 5) -310 62° Tw. To CONVERT DEGREES ON THE twaddle ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"twaddle ON TWEEDSIDE. FAREWELL, О Winter ! gentlemanly Old Man ; and hail, О
Spring ! most ladylike of Young Women! Frequent flirtation had there been for a ..."
5. Patriotism and Popular Education ...: The Whole Discourse Being in the Form by Henry Arthur Jones (1920)
"If the bishops really wish to raise our decadent and moribund drama, let them
not try to enforce a universal reign of rosy twaddle, but let them give their ..."
6. The Manual of Colours and Dye Wares: Their Properties, Applications by John William Slater (1870)
"Thus a sample of sulphuric acid marks— 1-849 1-000 5) 849 169, the degree of
twaddle. On the continent of Europe the most common scales are those of Beaume, ..."
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