twaddle

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"Ah, but her twaddle isn't half as bad as the chaffing I get.

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  1. intransitive verb To talk foolishly; prate.
  2. noun Foolish, trivial, or idle talk or chatter.

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  • More totally meaningles Marxist twaddle, even more pretentious than usual. —  The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG
  • More totally meaningless Marxist twaddle, and even more pretentious than usual. —  Libertarian Blog Place
  • What a load of twaddle, Nicky had plenty of adversity to deal with as well. —  Crash.Net Motorsports Newsfeed
  • In response to the barrage of OC twaddle, I simply submit the following:
  • I decided that those 26 seconds didn't justify subjecting you to the remaining three and a half minutes of twaddle, and in any event it's really the surge of the very opening, and the bit that follows immediately, that I wanted you to hear. —  DownWithTyranny!
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably variant of dialectal twattle, perhaps alteration of tattle.

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  1. A variant of twattle.
  2. from twaddle, v.
 

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/ˈtwɑdl/
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