Crossword clues for twaddle
twaddle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"silly talk, prosy nonsense," 1782, probably from twattle (1550s), of obscure origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish 2 A twaddler. vb. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
WordNet
n. pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh]
Wikipedia
As a common noun, twaddle means "idle talk, nonsense".
- Meaningless Tweets; also the vast quantity of useless information that often overwhelms social media searches
Twaddle is also a Scottish surname, and as such may refer to:
- Kevin Twaddle (born 1971), Scottish former professional footballer
- Marc Twaddle (born 1986), Scottish professional footballer
- Nathan Twaddle (born 1976), a rower from New Zealand and Olympic medallist
Usage examples of "twaddle".
Skulls Full of Mush: Young American people after their brains have been pasteurized and filled with multiculturalism, sex advocacy programs, and other twaddle by our failing public school system.
Ronnie paid little attention to her he would glance at her but never spoke to her or talked the baby twaddle that Dad did and which, strangely, I found it impossible to use but to my growing concern he had once again turned his attention to me.
The following is a fair example of the questions asked, and also of the sloppy twaddle in the way of answers, furnished by Manchester under the pretense that it came from the specter.
You will cut short all this twaddle about her great wealth and Western ways and numberless beaux.
These sagacious, humorous fellows who were amusing themselves with twaddling trade apothegms and ridiculous banqueteering solemnities, surely they were aware that this had no bearing upon their own jobs?
My focus is Muslim demographic patterns of the late twentieth century, not the popularist twaddle she promotes.
Eulenspiegels, or, finally, for the edification of Argemone as to her own history, past, present, or future, are questions which we must leave unanswered, till physicians have become a little more of metaphysicians, and have given up their present plan of ignoring for nine hundred and ninety-nine pages that most awful and significant custom of dreaming, and then in the thousandth page talking the boldest materialist twaddle about it.
This sort of Lacedemonian twaddle went on during the whole time of my visit, and my cousin evidently was proud of being surrounded by such Spartans.
Under the guise of sentimental twaddle she got my unfortunate client to meet her at night in the grounds of Clevere and to give up to her the letters which might have compromised her in the eyes of her new lover.
This twaddle about the Rue Blomet, Pamela, the barracks, the lancer, had passed before Marius like a dissolving view.
Now, if you take into account that all this was to be worked out by a set of lazy, twaddling, shiftless laborers, who had grown up, all their lives, in the absence of every possible motive to learn how to do anything but "shirk,' as you Vermonters say, and you'll see that there might naturally be, on his plantation, a great many things that looked horrible and distressing to a sensitive child, like me.