twaddle
Syllables: twad·dleUK/ˈtwɒdəl//ˈtwɑdəl/
twaddle noun: empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
Noun
twaddle (countable and uncountable, plural twaddles)
- Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
- You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!
- Still, being unfortunate enough to belong to that small but respectable minority who regard Mr. Tupper's versicular philosophy as superficial and conceited twaddle,—as a new manifestation to these latter days of weakness and sentimentalism under the solemn form of the Oracular,[…].1858 July, “Charlatan Poetry: Martin Farquhar Tupper”, in The National Review, volume 7, number 13, page 162
- Synonyms:
- babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag
- One who twaddles; a twaddler.
Verb
twaddle (third-person singular simple present twaddles, present participle twaddling, simple past and past participle twaddled)
- To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 181
Proper noun capitalized: Twaddle
Twaddle (plural Twaddles)
- A surname.
twaddle meaning in Urdu, Malayalam, Kannada and Indonesian
twaddle in Urdu
- بکواس
twaddle in Malayalam
- nonsense, gibberish, rubbish
- അസംബന്ധം, ശുദ്ധഅസംബന്ധം, അപാർത്ഥം, അർത്ഥമില്ലാത്തത്, ചവറ്, വിലകെട്ട സാഹിത്യരചന
twaddle in Kannada
- ಹೆಡ್ಡುಮಾತು, ಹುರುಳಿಲ್ಲದ ಮಾತು, ಅಸಂಬದ್ಧ
twaddle in Indonesian
- Empty or silly idle talk or writing
- ocehan
Examples of twaddle in a sentence
- "What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a...
- I would rather be rude than to listen to twaddle from a man I’ve known.1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part II (Sawston), page...
- Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym.1918 June, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Prelude”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company...
- I improvised for three or four minutes, speaking complete twaddle in character.2025 October 28, Arifa Akbar, quoting Meera Syal, “‘I spoke complete twaddle for four minutes’: Meera Syal, Larry Lamb and more on the...
Synonyms of twaddle
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Forms of twaddle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | twaddles |
| alternative form | twoddle |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | twaddles |
| present participle | twaddling |
| past participle | twaddled |
| past | twaddled |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Twaddles |
Origin of twaddle
An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin.
Variant of Tweedle.
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Words that rhyme with twaddle
Questions about twaddle
- What does twaddle mean?
- Twaddle means empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
- What is twaddle in Urdu?
- Twaddle in Urdu is بکواس. See Twaddle meaning in Urdu.
- How do you use twaddle in a sentence?
- "What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."
- What part of speech is twaddle?
- Twaddle can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce twaddle?
- Twaddle is pronounced /ˈtwɒdəl/ (UK).
- What is the plural of twaddle?
- The plural of twaddle is twaddles.
Words near twaddle in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: twaddle (page history and authors); Twaddle (page history and authors); twaddle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); twaddle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); twaddle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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