twaddling
twaddling is the present participle and gerund of twaddle.
Meaning of twaddle
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
Noun
twaddling (countable and uncountable, plural twaddlings)
- nonsense; claptrap
- It delighted her to draw out his worldlinesses, and to make the old habitue of clubs and drawing-rooms tell his twaddling tales about great folks, and expound his views of morals.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 55, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
Forms of twaddling
| plural | twaddlings |
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Questions about twaddling
- What does twaddling mean?
- Twaddling means nonsense; claptrap.
- What is twaddling the present participle and gerund of?
- Twaddling is the present participle and gerund of twaddle.
- What part of speech is twaddling?
- Twaddling is a noun.
- What is the plural of twaddling?
- The plural of twaddling is twaddlings.
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