twaddle

Plural: twaddles

Noun

• pretentious or silly talk or writing
• Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• One who twaddles; a twaddler.

Verb

Verb Forms: twaddled, twaddling, twaddles

• To speak or write foolishly or inconsequentially.
• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
• To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

Examples

• He began to TWADDLE about his bad luck with tiles, distracting his Scrabble opponent.
• You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!

Synonyms

baloney, bilgewater, blab, blabber, boloney, bosh, chatter, clack, drool, gabble, gibber, humbug, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tattle, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, tosh

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