twaddle
Americannoun
verb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
- twaddler noun
- twaddly adjective
Etymology
Origin of twaddle
Example Sentences
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“Posh and twaddle and fiddlesticks!” shouted Major Puff, as if by saying those words he countered the fact of the caribou’s quickness.
From Literature
He told the court he was "just talking twaddle" and was writing things down as he thought them.
From BBC
First, it is no exaggeration to say that this statement may be the most self-serving pile of bombastic twaddle Silicon Valley has ever created.
From Los Angeles Times
You dismiss heritage as “unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war.”
From Los Angeles Times
Yet, even now, the website of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is a model of equivocation, filled with unctuous twaddle about ancestral bravery in war and not being judgmental now.
From Los Angeles Times
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