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TWADDLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pretentious or silly talk or writing

Synonyms:

baloney; bilgewater; boloney; bosh; drool; humbug; taradiddle; tarradiddle; tommyrot; tosh; twaddle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("twaddle" is a kind of...):

bunk; hokum; meaninglessness; nonsense; nonsensicality (a message that seems to convey no meaning)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))

Derivation:

twaddle (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Synonyms:

blab; blabber; chatter; clack; gabble; gibber; maunder; palaver; piffle; prate; prattle; tattle; tittle-tattle; twaddle

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "twaddle" is one way to...):

mouth; speak; talk; utter; verbalise; verbalize (express in speech)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "twaddle"):

babble; blather; blether; blither; smatter (to talk foolishly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

twaddle (pretentious or silly talk or writing)

twaddler (someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle)

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