Twaddle

Noun

 * 1) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish
 * 2) A twaddler.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:chatter

Quotations

 * nonsense
 * 1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 118,
 * Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym.
 * rubbish
 * 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study In Scarlet, Beeton's Christmas Annual, (Chapter 2 - The Science of Deduction), pages 1-95 (exact page number not known).
 * "What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."

Verb

 * 1) To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

Thesaurus
absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blah-blah, blather, blether, blethers, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter-chatter, clack, claptrap, clatter, dither, double-talk, drivel, drool, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge, fustian, gab, gabble, galimatias, gammon, gas, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, go on, gobbledygook, gossip, guff, gush, haver, hocus-pocus, hot air, humbug, idle talk, jabber, jargon, jaw, malarkey, mere talk, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, natter, niaiserie, nonsense, nonsense talk, pack of nonsense, palaver, patter, piffle, poppycock, pour forth, prate, prating, prattle, prittle-prattle, ramble on, rant, rattle, rattle on, reel off, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, run on, skimble-skamble, spout, spout off, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, talk away, talk nonsense, talk on, talkee-talkee, tittle-tattle, tommyrot, trash, trumpery, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, vapor, vaporing, waffle, waffling, yak, yakkety-yak

Etymology
1782, by alteration of twattle: (1556), of unknown origin.

Noun

 * Finnish:, höpötys
 * Norwegian: pjatt, tomprat, tullprat, løst prat


 * Polish: paplanina, gadanina
 * Swedish:, svammel, dravel, , pladder,

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * Polish: ,


 * Swedish: svamla, pladdra, babbla

Synonyms

 * See WikiSaurus:nonsense