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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] v
1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: probably alteration of English dialect twattle idle talk Date: 1782 1. a. silly idle talk ; drivel b. something insignificant or worthless ; nonsense <that idea is pure twaddle> 2. one that twaddles ; twaddler II. verb (twaddled; twaddling) Date: 1826 prate, babble • twaddler noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. useless, senseless, or dull writing or talk. --v.intr. indulge in this. Derivatives: twaddler n. Etymology: alt. of earlier twattle, alt. of TATTLE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Twaddle Twad"dle, v. i. & t. [See Twattle.] To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. --Stanyhurst.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Twaddle Twad"dle, n. Silly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. --T. Hughes.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you refer to something that someone says as twaddle, you mean that it is silly or untrue. (INFORMAL) = drivel [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Prate, prattle, chatter, tattle, twattle, gabble, gossip, balderdash, moonshine, nonsense, jargon, flummery, rigmarole, stuff, platitude, wish-wash, senseless talk, idle talk, frothy discourse, twaddling, twaddy. II. v. n. Prate, prattle, maunder, twattle, gabble, chatter.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Perplexity, confusion, or any thing else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of BORE. See BORE.

Moby Thesaurus

absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, malarkey, mere talk, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, spout, spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, yak, yakkety-yak