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Definition of 'twaddle'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) twaddle
silly or tedious talk or writing.

2. (v.i.) twaddle
to talk in a silly or tedious manner; prate.

3. (v.t.) twaddle
to utter as twaddle.

Etymology: (1540–50; var. of twattle, b. twiddle and tattle)

Definition of 'twaddle'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (verb) baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle
pretentious or silly talk or writing

2. (verb) chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Definition of 'twaddle'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) twaddle
silly talk; gabble; fustian

2. twaddle
to talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle

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