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Answer for the clue "Twaddle ", 10 letters:
balderdash

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Word definitions for balderdash in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. trivial nonsense [syn: fiddle-faddle , piffle ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balderdash \Bal"der*dash\, n. [Of uncertain origin: cf. Dan. balder noise, clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, baldorddi, to prattle.] A worthless mixture, especially of ...

Usage examples of balderdash.

Mr Bloom was rather inclined to poohpooh the suggestion as egregious balderdash for, pending that consummation devoutly to be or not to be wished for, he was fully cognisant of the fact that their neighbours across the channel, unless they were much bigger fools than he took them for, rather concealed their strength than the opposite.

His focus had been entirely on the captain's argument with the officious clerk, and he'd dismissed the statement as just another of the captain's Niagara Falls of balderdash and bunkum.