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English

Etymology

An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tw?d?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tw?d?l/
• Rhymes: -æd?l
• Hyphenation: twad?dle

Noun

twaddle (countable and uncountable, plural twaddles)

1. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish. [from 1782.]
   • 1886, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Science of Deduction”, in A Study in Scarlet (Beeton's Christmas Annual; 28th season), London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., November 1887, ?OCLC; republished as A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story, new edition, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892, ?OCLC, page 28:

     "What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."

   • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 203]:

     I would rather be rude than to listen to twaddle from a man I’ve known.
2. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:chatter

Translations

Verb

twaddle (third-person singular simple present twaddles, present participle twaddling, simple past and past participle twaddled)

1. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:nonsense

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References

Further reading

• twaddle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia