twaddle (redirected from twaddles)

twad·dle  (twdl)

intr.v. twad·dled, twad·dling, twad·dles

To talk foolishly; prate.

n.

Foolish, trivial, or idle talk or chatter.

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[Probably variant of dialectal twattle, perhaps alteration of tattle.]

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twaddler n.

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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]

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Twaddle of public speakers—Lipton, 1970.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, tommyrot, tosh, taradiddle, tarradiddle hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense, nonsensicality, bunk - a message that seems to convey no meaning jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
Verb	1.	twaddle - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly blabber, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle, gabble, gibber, blab, clack, maunder, chatter mouth, speak, talk, verbalise, verbalize, utter - express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize" blather, blether, blither, smatter, babble - to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby"

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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

twaddle [ˈtwɔdl] n (col) → tonterías fpl

twaddle [ˈtwɔdl] n → balivernes fpl

twaddle [ˈtwɔdl] (inf) n → dummes Zeug nt

twaddle [ˈtwɔdl] n → scemenze fpl