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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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