stultiloquyn.
/stʌlˈtɪləkwi/ A speaking foolishly, a foolish babbling.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > [noun] > instance of
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tittle-tattle1570
nothing1581
tattle1583
rattle1627
stultiloquy1653
pratement1657
hubble-bubble1720
spermology1890
1653 Bp. J. Taylor Golden Grove: Winter xxiii. 301 What they call facetiousnesse and pleasant wit, is indeed to all wise persons a meer Stultiloquy, or talking like a foole.
1826 Examiner 190/1 A sort of unique stultiloquy governs some of the public deliberations of the owners and occupiers of land.
1867 De Morgan in Athenæum 21 Dec. 852/3 Such a self-destructive congeries of stultiloquies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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