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Definition: Twaddle |
TwaddleNoun1. Pretentious or silly talk or writing. Verb1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "twaddle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | TWADDLE. Perplexity, confusion, or any thing else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of BORE. See BORE. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Synonyms: TwaddleSynonyms: baloney (n), bilgewater (n), boloney (n), bosh (n), drool (n), humbug (n), taradiddle (n), tarradiddle (n), tommyrot (n), tosh (n), blab (v), blabber (v), chatter (v), clack (v), gabble (v), gibber (v), maunder (v), palaver (v), piffle (v), prate (v), prattle (v), tattle (v), tittle-tattle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absurdity | Jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish; (no meaning); exaggeration; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion. |
Loquacity | Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking. |
Jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk; (converse). | |
Unmeaningness | Verb: mean nothing; be unmeaning; Adjective: twaddle, quibble, scrabble. |
Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility). | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Twaddle |
| English words defined with "twaddle": Twaddling, Twaddy, Twattle. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "twaddle": HOVEL ♦ Skillygolee. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOVEL, n. The fruit of a flower called the Palace. Twaddle had a hovel, Twiddle had a palace; Twaddle said: "I'll grovel Or he'll think I bear him malice" -- A sentiment as novel As a castor on a chalice. Down upon the middle Of his legs fell Twaddle And astonished Mr. Twiddle, Who began to lift his noddle. Feed upon the fiddle- Faddle flummery, unswaddle A new-born self-sufficiency and think himself a [mockery.] G.J. |
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| "Twaddle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Twaddle" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 25 | 69,787 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "twaddle" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Twaddle | Last name | 200 | 34,518 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expression using "twaddle": twaddle gauge. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
twaddle | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "twaddle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | marrëzira (baloney), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, bunco, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references) | |
Arabic | كلام فارغ (balderdash, bosh, bunk, drivel, empty talk, fiddle-faddle, idle talk, nonsense, poppycock, prattle), هذر (chatter, gabble, garrulity, gibber, logorrhea, loquacity, palaver, patter, prate, prolixity, twitter), الثرثار (blab, blabber, chatterbox, clapper, talker, windbag), ثرثرة (babble, blab, blabber, boastfulness, breeze, cackle, chat, chatter, clatter, gab, gabble, garrulity, gas, gibberish, jabber, jactitation, logorrhea, loquacity, patter, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, tattler, tittle tattle, yap), ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, tattle, twitter, yap). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | говоря празни приказки, празни приказки (babble, eyewash, flim-flam, froth, fudge, gas, jazz, natter, palaver, patter, piffle, talk, tittle tattle, wind, yack), плещене (gammon, slipslop, yap), дрънкам (blab, cank, chin, chink, cosher, gab, jangle, jingle, plunk, prate, rattle, tinkle). (various references) | |
Czech | tlachání (cackle, gab, gas, palaver, talk, waffle), žvanit (babble, blab, burble, cackle, gabble, gas, natter, palaver, pettifog, piffle, prate, prattle, rattle, spout, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle, yap), žvanìní (cackle, chatter, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, rigmarole, tattle, waffle, wind). (various references) | |
Danish | salinometer (areometer, densimeter, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge), flydevaegt (areometer, densimeter, float, float lever, floater, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge), densitometer (areometer, densimeter, densitometer, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge), araeometer (areometer, densimeter, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge). (various references) | |
Dutch | raaskallen (be delirious, drivel), kolderen (be delirious, drivel), bazelen (drivel). (various references) | |
Esperanto | paroli sensence (drivel). (various references) | |
Farsi | چرندگفتن , سخن بی معنی (Jargon). (various references) | |
Finnish | tiheysmittari (areometer, densimeter, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge), uppovaaka (areometer, densimeter, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge), areometri (areometer, densimeter, hydrometer, salinometer, twaddle gauge). (various references) | |
French | fadaises, dire des ordures, dire des bêtises, blaguer, balivernes. (various references) | |
German | schwatzen (babble, blab, blather, cackle, chat, chatter, drool, gab, gabbings, go on, gossip, jabber, jabber away, natter, patter, prattle, talk, talk away, to blab, to chatter, to twaddle, visit), schwafeln (babble, blather, drivel, flannel, gas, rabbit on, ramble, to babble, waffle), schwafelei (blathering, drivel, waffle), schwätzen (babble, blather, cackle, chatter, drool, gab, go on, gossip, jabber, jabber away, natter, prate, prattle, talk, talk away, to twaddle, visit), schnickschnack (balderdash, paraphernalia, poppycock), quatsch (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blah, bull, bunk, bunkum, fiddle-faddle, flubdub, garbage, gibberish, hogwash, hooey, jabberwocky, malarkey, nonsense, poppycock, rubbish, shucks, trash), käse (cheese, rubbish), gewäsch (claptrap, hot air, jazz), gefasel (drivel, meanderings), geblödel (baloney, cackle, nonsense, patter), faseln (drivel, gas, maunder, ramble, waffle). (various references) | |
Greek | κουραφέξαλα (fiddlesticks, fudge, hot air, nuts, pshaw, rubbish), σαχλαμάρεσ (poppycock), μωρολογώ (drivel, drool, fudge, piffle, prattle), μωρολογία (babble, drivel, fudge, prattle, prittle prattle, rigmarole), πολυλογία (chatter, gab, garrulousness, loquacity, prattle, talkativeness, verbalism, verbalization, verbiage, verboseness, verbosity), φλυαρώ (babble, blabber, chatter, gab, gabble, gibber, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, rattle away, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle, yammer, yap, yatter), ανοησίεσ (balderdash, claptrap, fiddlesticks, hooey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, rubbish, stuff). (various references) | |
Hungarian | locsogás (blatter, driveling, drivelling, fiddle-faddle, gabble, garrulity, gossiping, jangle, lap, piffle, prattle, tittle tattle, tittle-tattle, yack, yakkety-yak). (various references) | |
Italian | chiacchierare (blab, chat, chatter, gossip, natter, prate, rap, talk, tattle, visit). (various references) | |
Manx | raalish (empty talk), loayrt raalish, loayrt boghtynid. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | addletway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tolice (applesauce, barney, blunder, bosh, bungle, fiddle-de-dee, flapdoodle, folly, foolery, foolishness, guff, gup, howler, ineptitude, ineptness, infelicity, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, rot, silliness, simplicity, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, unreason), falar no ar, dizer tolices (fudge, piffle, tomfool), dizer disparates (piffle), disparate (absurdity, balderdash, blather, blether, bloomer, bosh, bull, bunk, disparate, fiddle-de-dee, fiddlestick, flapdoodle, flummery, foolery, foolishness, fribble, fudge, guff, gup, hot, howler, moonshine, mush, nonsense, piffle, punk, simplicity, skittle, tomfoolery, tommy rot, tripe, tump, unreason, unwisdom). (various references) | |
Romanian | vorbãrie (babble, chit chat, clack, gabble, palaver, phrase, talk), palavre (tittle tattle), pãlãvrãgi (babble, chatter, confabulate, crack, gossip, humbug, jabber, prate), aiurealã (babble, confusion, flurry, fuss, hubbub, muss, raving, rigmarole, thoughtlessness, tomfoolery). (various references) | |
Russian | брехать (bark, drivel, lie, tell a lie), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tattle, tittle tattle, waffle, wish-wash), болтать болтовня (gab, yakking), пустословие (empty rhetoric, froth, rant, song and dance, verbiage, windiness). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | brbljanje (babblement, blabber, blather, gab, gibber, jive, prattle). (various references) | |
Spanish | desatinar (drivel). (various references) | |
Swedish | svammel (flannels, froth, jazz, rambling, rigmarole, wish-wash), svamla (waffle). (various references) | |
Turkish | zırvalamak (blah blah, flap, gab, rot, talk nonsense), zırva (balderdash, baloney, bilge, blather, blether, boloney, bosh, bull, bunk, bunkum, eyewash, fiddle, fiddle-de-dee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flapdoodle, flimflam, gammon, garbage, gassing, hooey, jabber wocky, nonsense, punk, raving, ravings, rot, rubbish, stuff, tommyrot), saçmalamak (blah blah, blather, blether, drivel, drool, flap, gab, gas, piffle, rave, rot, talk nonsense, talk through one's hat, talk wild, waffle, yap), saçmalık (absurdity, applesauce, balderdash, bilge, blather, blatherskite, blether, bosh, drivel, extravagance, eyewash, farce, fatuity, fiddle-faddle, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, gab, galimatias, gassing, gibberish, guff, hog-wash, hokum, hooey, inanity, ineptitude, ineptness, insanity, irrationality, lark, malarkey, moonshine, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, shenanigan, silliness, spinach, stuff, talkee-talkee, the irrational, trash, triviality, vacuity, whimsicality, whimsicalness, wind, wishy-wash), saçma sapan konuşmak (blather, blether, piffle, talk nonsense, talk wild, tell a long rigmarole, yak), geveze tip. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | малозрозуміла писанина, базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tattle, tittle tattle, tootle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện lăng nhăng (haver), câu chuyện mách qué. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "twaddle": twaddled, twaddler, twaddlers, twaddles. (additional references) | |
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"Twaddle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: taddle, tadle, twaddel, Twaddell, twadle, Twydale. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "twaddle" (pronounced twÄ"dul) |
| 5 | -w Ä" d u l | Waddle. |
| 4 | -Ä" d u l | caudal, Coddle, model, remodel, toddle. |
| 3 | -d u l | addle, alkaloidal, antipodal, astraddle, backpedal, beadle, Bedell, befuddle, bindle, Boodle, bridal, bridle, Brindle, bundle, caboodle, candle, caudle, colloidal, cradle, cuddle, dawdle, Doodle, dwindle, feudal, fiddle, fondle, genocidal, girdle, handle, homicidal, huddle, hurdle, idle, idol, idyll, spindle, straddle, suicidal, supermodel, swindle, intermodal, intertidal, kindle, ladle, manhandle, medal, meddle, middle, minoxidil, mishandle, modal, mollycoddle, muddle, needle, noodle, paddle, panhandle, pedal, peddle, Piddle, poodle, puddle, pyramidal, rekindle, rhizoidal, riddle, Ruddle, Rundle, saddle, sandal, scandal, Seidel, sidle, tidal, trundle, Tweedle, twiddle, unbundle, vandal, Wedel, widdle, Windle, yodel. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-l-t-w" | |
-1 letter: dawdle, dawted, waddle. | |
-2 letters: addle, dated, dawed, dealt, dedal, delta, dwelt, laded, lated, lawed, tawed, waded, waled, weald. | |
-3 letters: awed, dale, date, dawt, dead, deal, delt, lade, late, lead, lewd, tael, tale, teal, tela, twae, wade, wale, weal, weld, welt. | |
-4 letters: add, ale, alt, ate, awe, awl, dad, dal, daw, del, dew, eat, eld. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-l-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twaddled, twaddler, twaddles. | |
+2 letters: twaddlers. | |
+3 letters: wildcatted. | |
+4 letters: bladderwort. | |
+5 letters: bladderworts, waterflooded. | |
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