name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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name
A surname.
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noun
Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
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Usage: uncountable
Synonyms: babble, bavardage, bibble-babble, blab, blabber, blabbing, blather, blathering, chatter, chinwag, chit-chat, claver, clepe, gabble, hot air, mardle, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, scuttlebutt, small talk, tattle, twaddle, waffle, yackety-yak, yap, yatter
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noun
One who twaddles; a twaddler.
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Usage: countable
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verb
To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
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noun
pretentious or silly talk or writing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh
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Broader terms: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
verb
speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
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Synonyms: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble
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Broader terms: talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise
Narrower terms: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither
History
Variant of Tweedle.
An alteration of twattle (1556), of unknown origin.
Across languages
68 source translations are retained for this English entry.