VERB | communication | twaddle, chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble | speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly |
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NOUN | communication | twaddle, baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh | pretentious or silly talk or writing |
Sounds | twaa'dahl | |
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Rhymes | abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl... |
Meaning | pretentious or silly talk or writing. | |
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Synonyms | baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh | |
Broader | nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum | A message that seems to convey no meaning / meaning |
Usage of | slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular | A characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
Spanish | bobadas, boloney, chorradas, disparates, tonterías | |
Catalan | bajanades, bestiesa, boloney, disbarat, poca-soltada, ximpleria | |
Verbs | twaddle | speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly |
Meaning | speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s | |
Synonyms | chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble | |
Narrower | babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither | To talk / talk foolishly |
Broader | talk, speak, utter, mouth, verbalize, verbalise | Express in speech |
Spanish | charlar, cotillear, disparatar, garlar, parlotear | |
Catalan | desbarrar, garlar, parlotejar, xerrar | |
Nouns | twaddle | pretentious or silly talk or writing |
twaddler | someone who twaddles |
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