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Noun: twaddle  twó-dul
Usage: informal
  1. 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]
Verb: twaddle  twó-dul
Usage: informal
  1. 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