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twaddle Noun silly, trivial, or pretentious talk or writing Verb [-dling, -dled] to talk or write in a silly or pretentious way [earlier twattle] Twaddle of public speakers—Lipton, 1970. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
twaddle noun nonsense, rubbish, rot, garbage (informal) pants (slang) gossip, crap (slang) trash, hot air (informal) tosh (slang), chiefly Brit. waffle (informal), chiefly Brit. pap, bilge (informal) drivel, tripe (informal) guff (slang) tattle, moonshine, verbiage, gabble, claptrap (informal) gobbledegook (informal) hogwash, hokum (slang), chiefly U.S., Canad. rigmarole, blather, piffle (informal) poppycock (informal) inanity, balderdash, bosh (informal) eyewash (informal) trumpery, tommyrot, foolish talk, horsefeathers U.S. (slang) bunkum or buncombe chiefly U.S. bizzo Austral. (slang) bull's wool Austral., N.Z. (slang) Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Then the jury'll twaddle and twaddle and twaddle, and finally they'll fetch in a verdict that he got shot or stuck or busted over the head with something, and come to his death by the inspiration of God. Shallow twaddle, that, if it were addressed to you over a dinner-table, you would think 'Does the man take me for a fool? My goodness, what utter twaddle, and what may all this nonsense have signified, pray? |
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