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Definition: TWADDLING |
TWADDLING1. A. & n. from Twaddle, v. |
Date "TWADDLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Unmeaningness | Trashy, washy, trumpery, trivial, fiddle-faddle, twaddling, quibbling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Language | Translations for "TWADDLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | schwatzend (blabbing, gabbling, pattering), schwätzend (prating). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | addlingtway aiurit (blunder-head, distracted, distraught, driveller, drivelling, flighty, foolish, giddy, hare-brained, irresponsible, light-headed, muddle-head, nut, oddball, scatterbrain, scatterbrains, silly, thoughtless, whiffler, wool gathering, wrongheaded). (various references) | ||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "TWADDLING" (pronounced 'Twad"dling'): middling, Overmeddling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-g-i-l-n-t-w" | |
-1 letter: dawdling, waddling. | |
-2 letters: addling, dawting, wadding. | |
-3 letters: adding, dating, dawing, lading, lawing, ligand, tawing, wading, waling. | |
-4 letters: algid, algin, align, awing, diwan, gaddi, gadid, giant, gland, glint, liang, ligan, linga, nidal, tidal, twain, twang, wigan, witan. | |
-5 letters: adit, agin, alit, anil, anti, dang, dawn, dawt, dial, ding, dint, dita, gadi, gain, gait, gild, gilt, glad. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Bibliography |
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