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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  twaddle 
  n  :  pretentious  or  silly  talk  or  writing  [syn:  {baloney},  {boloney}, 
  {bilgewater},  {bosh},  {drool},  {humbug},  {taradiddle},  {tarradiddle}, 
  {tommyrot},  {tosh}] 
  v  :  speak  (about  unimportant  matters)  rapidly  and  incessantly 
  [syn:  {chatter},  {piffle},  {palaver},  {prate},  {tittle-tattle}, 
  {clack},  {maunder},  {prattle},  {gibber},  {tattle},  {blabber}, 
  {gabble}] 




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