twaddle : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: twaddle	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for twaddle
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
twaddle n pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] v speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly Synonym(s): chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
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.