Twaddle

created by Webster 1913
(thing) by Vulgar Tongue 1811 (3.2 y) (print)   (I like it!) Wed May 04 2005 at 21:09:26
TWADDLE
Perplexity, confusion, or any thing else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of BORE. See BORE.

The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:00:05

Twad"dle (?), v. i. & t. [See Twattle.]

To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

Stanyhurst.

 

© Webster 1913.

Twad"dle, n.

Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.

 

© Webster 1913.

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