twaddle

UK /ˈtwɒdəl/ US /ˈtwɑdəl/
noun 2verb 1name 1

Definitions

noun

1

Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.

You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!

Still, being unfortunate enough to belong to that small but respectable minority who regard Mr. Tupper's versicular philosophy as superficial and conceited twaddle,—as a new manifestation to these latter days of weakness and sentimentalism under the solemn form of the Oracular,[…].

2

One who twaddles; a twaddler.

verb

1

To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.

name

1

A surname.

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