Definition of twaddles Twaddles
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Wiktionary 
- twaddles (Noun)
Plural of twaddle.
Part of speech
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| twaddle - pretentious or silly talk or writing | ||
| baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh | ||
| hokum, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, nonsense, bunk the quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him" | ||
| argot, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular, jargon, cant a regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard | ||
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| twaddle - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly | ||
| chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble | ||
| mouth, utter, verbalise, verbalize, speak, talk articulate silently; form words with the lips only; "She mouthed a swear word" | ||
| blather, blether, blither, smatter, babble speak with spotty or superficial knowledge; "She smatters Russian" | ||
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Wiktionary
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- twaddle (v. i. & t.)
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. - twaddle (n.)
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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twaddle
twod′l, v.i. to talk in a silly manner.—n. silly talk: a senseless talker.—ns. Twadd′ler; Twadd′ling, twaddle or silly talk.—adj. Twadd′ly, consisting of twaddle. [Earlier form twattle, a variant of tattle.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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twaddle
Perplexity, confusion, or any thing else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of BORE. See BORE.
