Noun: twaddle twó-dul
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
Usage: informal
- Pretentious or silly talk or writing
"The politician's speech was full of twaddle";
- baloney [informal], boloney [informal], bilgewater [informal], bosh [informal], drool, humbug, taradiddle [informal], tarradiddle [informal], tommyrot [informal], tosh [Brit, informal]
Usage: informal
- Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
"The old man twaddled on about the weather";
- chatter, piffle [informal], palaver [informal], prate, tittle-tattle, clack [informal], maunder, prattle, blab [informal], gibber, tattle, blabber [informal], gabble, vapour [Brit, Cdn], vapor [US], rabbit [Brit, informal], jibber-jabber, witter [Brit, informal], twattle [UK, dialect], yatter [Brit, informal], yabber [informal]
Derived forms: twaddles, twaddling, twaddled
Type of: bunk [informal], hokum [informal], meaninglessness, mouth, nonsense, nonsensicality, speak, talk, utter, verbalise [Brit], verbalize
Encyclopedia: Twaddle