twaddlen.adj.

/ˈtwɒd(ə)l/

Etymology: Origin obscure: not found a1780; perhaps an alteration of the earlier twattle n.¹ (known as v. from 1573, as n. from 1639; in twittle-twattle from c1550).

a. Senseless, silly, or trifling talk or writing; empty verbosity; dull and trashy statement or discourse; empty commonplace; prosy nonsense.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun]

magged talea1387

moonshine1468

trumperyc1485

foolishness1531

trash1542

baggage1545

flim-flam1570

gear1570

rubbisha1576

fiddle-faddle1577

stuff1579

fible-fable1581

balductum1593

pill1608

nonsense1612

skimble-skamble1619

porridge1642

mataeology1656

fiddle-come-faddle1663

apple sauce1672

balderdash1674

flummery1749

slang1762

all my eye1763

diddle-daddle1778

(all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781

twaddle1782

blancmange1790

fudge1791

twiddle-twaddle1798

bothering1803

fee-faw-fum1811

slip-slop1811

nash-gab1816

flitter-tripe1822

effutiation1823

bladderdash1826

ráiméis1828

fiddlededee1843

pickles1846

rot1846

kelter1847

bosh1850

flummadiddle1850

poppycock1852

Barnum1856

fribble-frabble1859

kibosh1860

skittle1864

cod1866

Collyweston1867

punk1869

slush1869

stupidness1873

bilge-water1878

flapdoodle1878

tommyrot1880

ruck1882

piffle1884

flamdoodle1888

razzmatazz1888

balls1889

pop1890

narrischkeit1892

tosh1892

footle1894

tripe1895

crap1898

bunk1900

junk1906

quatsch1907

bilge1908

B.S.1912

bellywash1913

jazz1913

wash1913

bullshit?1915

kid-stakes1916

hokum1917

bollock1919

bullsh1919

bushwa1920

noise1920

bish-bosh1922

malarkey1923

posh1923

hooey1924

shit1924

heifer dust1927

madam1927

baloney1928

horse feathers1928

phonus-bolonus1929

rhubarb1929

spinach1929

toffeea1930

tomtit1930

hockey1931

phoney baloney1933

moody1934

cockalorum1936

cock1937

mess1937

waffle1937

berley1941

bull dust1943

crud1943

globaloney1943

hubba-hubba1944

pish1944

phooey1946

asswipe1947

chickenshit1947

slag1948

batshit1950

goop1950

slop1952

cack1954

doo-doo1954

cobbler1955

horse shit1955

nyamps1955

pony1956

horse manure1957

waffling1958

bird shit1959

codswallop1959

how's your father1959

dog shit1963

cods1965

shmegegge1968

pucky1970

taradiddle1970

mouthwash1971

wank1974

gobshite1977

mince1985

toss1990

arse1993

1782 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 125 Fanny Burney has taken possession of the ear of those who found their amusement in reading her twaddle (that piece of old fashioned slang I should not have dared to write or utter, within hearing of my dear mother).

1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Nov. (1939) 22 A letter..quoting the twaddle of some old woman.

1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. 257 Pouring out endless volumes of sentimental twaddle.

1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xii. 145 The odious small-talk and twaddle he was compelled to hear.

1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xx. 243 No need to talk a lot of twaddle and nonsense to a woman with brains.

1906 F. Treves Highways & Byways Dorset xviii. 291 He was guided by personal..experience, and not by the twaddle of theorists.

b. In extended sense: Something trashy or worthless; rubbish.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless

hawc1000

turdc1275

fille1297

dusta1300

lead1303

skitc1330

naught1340

vanityc1340

wrakea1350

rushc1350

dirt1357

fly's wing1377

goose-wing1377

fartc1390

chaff?a1400

nutshella1400

shalec1400

yardc1400

wrack1472

pelfrya1529

trasha1529

dreg1531

trish-trash1542

alchemy1547

beggary?1548

rubbish1548

pelfa1555

chip1556

stark naught1562

paltry?1566

rubbish1566

riff-raff1570

bran1574

baggage1579

nihil1579

trush-trash1582

stubblea1591

tartar1590

garbage1592

bag of winda1599

a cracked or slit groat1600

kitchen stuff1600

tilta1603

nothing?1608

bauble1609

countera1616

a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620

buttermilk1630

dross1632

paltrement1641

cattle1643

bagatelle1647

nothingness1652

brimborion1653

stuff1670

flap-dragon1700

mud1706

caput mortuuma1711

snuff1778

twaddle1786

powder-post1790

traffic1828

junk1836

duffer1852

shice1859

punk1869

hogwash1870

cagmag1875

shit1890

tosh1892

tripe1895

dreck1905

schlock1906

cannon fodder1917

shite1928

skunk1929

crut1937

chickenshit1938

crud1943

Mickey Mouse1958

gick1959

garbo1978

turd1978

pants1994

1786 Lounger (1787) II. 197 The Ton of London is mere Twaddle,..the only right Ton is to be found in Paris.

1842 R. H. Barham Babes in Wood in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 189 Greek and Latin old twaddle I call!

†2. (See quots. and bore n.² 1) Obsolete slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > instance of > and confused

snarl1631

tangle1757

twaddle1785

an ill-favoured pirn1828

muddle1857

fankle1890

tie-up1906

snarl-up1960

1785 European Mag. & London Rev. Dec. 473/2 The favourite phrases fall, and are no more, The Rage, the Thing, the Twaddle, and the Bore.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Pref. 2 The fashionable words, or favourite expressions of the day,..vanish without leaving a trace behind, such were the late fashionable words, a Bore and a Twaddle, among the great vulgar.

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Twaddle, perplexity, confusion, or anything else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of bore.

†3. A person who talks or writes twaddle; a twaddler. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > one who indulges in

gabbler1624

mataeologian1653

mataeologue1716

twaddler1787

twaddle1802

piffler1885

bullshitter1941

waffler1959

1802 J. West Infidel Father II. 100 [He] acknowledged himself to be..bored by detestable twaddles.

1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. ii. 29 He thinks..the imagination..Could only enter in the noddles Of dull and ledger-keeping twaddles.

1830 T. B. Macaulay R. Montgomery's Poems in Ess. (1887) 142 A respectable and pious gentleman, whose principal fault is that he is something of a twaddle.

a1838 C. Morris Lyra Urban. (1840) II. 187 I fear I'm becoming a twaddle.

4. attributive or adj. Of the nature of twaddle; empty and prosy; in quot. 1830, feeble.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]

tooma1250

beggarly1526

trumpery1576

balductum1577

skimble-skamble1598

nonsense1621

warbling1621

flim-flam1631

nonsensical1645

unsensical1692

fiddlecome1697

waffling1698

mataeological1716

flummery1749

water-gruelish1788

slip-sloppish1797

twaddling1804

twaddle1830

twaddly1841

fee-faw-fumish1846

poppycock1852

boshy1860

twaddlesome1865

moonshiny1880

cockalorum1881

tommyrotic1894

crappy1928

ballsy1942

farkakte1960

1830 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 20 The difference between the twaddle and the vigorous in shooting.

1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 633 Historical Paintings.., gilt frames and twaddle-criticisms.

1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. v. 115 I hate the twaddle talk of love.

1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 219 Twaddle truisms instead of vital truths.

Derivatives

ˈtwaddlesome adj. full of or addicted to twaddle.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective]

tooma1250

beggarly1526

trumpery1576

balductum1577

skimble-skamble1598

nonsense1621

warbling1621

flim-flam1631

nonsensical1645

unsensical1692

fiddlecome1697

waffling1698

mataeological1716

flummery1749

water-gruelish1788

slip-sloppish1797

twaddling1804

twaddle1830

twaddly1841

fee-faw-fumish1846

poppycock1852

boshy1860

twaddlesome1865

moonshiny1880

cockalorum1881

tommyrotic1894

crappy1928

ballsy1942

farkakte1960

1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Nov. 10 A grim villain immensely stupid, and..a virtuous duke immensely twaddlesome.

1892 G. Meredith Let. 25 Apr. (1970) II. 1080 Dorothy Penrose, an enormous bulk, is uninterruptedly twaddlesome.

1966 K. S. Sorabji in ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept ii. 65 The twaddlesome sentimentalities about trusting the ultimate judgement and good sense of the public.

ˈtwaddledom n. the realm of twaddle, the habit of uttering twaddle.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > state of being

nonsensicality1652

nonsensicalness1674

twaddledom1837

1837 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 4 454 The twaddledom of old age.

ˈtwaddleize v. (transitive) to reduce to twaddle.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > write or express in prose [verb (transitive)] > turn into prose > and enfeeble style

twaddleize1850

1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 547/1 Dulling his [Burns's] humour, prosefying his poetry, and twaddleising his vigour.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

twaddlev.¹

Etymology: < twaddle n.; or perhaps altered, like it, < twattle v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtwaddle.

1. intransitive. To utter twaddle; to talk or write in a silly, empty, or trashy style.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > use language nonsensically [verb (intransitive)]

roya1450

to talk (or speak) at rovers1542

nonsense1822

squiddle1824

twaddle1825

fudge1834

buncomize1871

to be full of prunes1887

waffle1900

jive1928

bullshit1942

to talk out of one's arse1973

1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 375 Pope..beats them hollow. Catch him twaddling.

1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 Feb. (1946) 144 I am afraid I am twaddling.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Dessein's in Roundabout Papers ‘What is that old fellow twaddlin' about?’ cries Brummel.

a. transitive. To utter as twaddle, or in a trashy and prosy way.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > utter nonsensically [verb (transitive)]

rove1581

trifle1823

fudge1834

twaddle1837

crap1928

bullshit1942

waffle1957

1837 W. H. Prescott in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1864) 271 (note) They twaddle out their humour as if they were afraid of its biting too hard.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets viii. 34 You are not bound to worship, and twaddle pretended raptures.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 19 Jan. 7/1 Instead of twaddling out platitudes.

b. with away: To spend or pass in empty talk.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > utter in foolish matter [verb (transitive)]

trattlea1425

babblec1450

pratea1475

drivel1752

twaddle1826

maunder1834

bibble-babble1888

1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 11 Apr. (1939) 152 We twaddled away the evening well enough.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

单词	twaddle
释义	twaddlen.adj. /ˈtwɒd(ə)l/ Etymology: Origin obscure: not found a1780; perhaps an alteration of the earlier twattle n.¹ (known as v. from 1573, as n. from 1639; in twittle-twattle from c1550). 1. a. Senseless, silly, or trifling talk or writing; empty verbosity; dull and trashy statement or discourse; empty commonplace; prosy nonsense. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] magged talea1387 moonshine1468 trumperyc1485 foolishness1531 trash1542 baggage1545 flim-flam1570 gear1570 rubbisha1576 fiddle-faddle1577 stuff1579 fible-fable1581 balductum1593 pill1608 nonsense1612 skimble-skamble1619 porridge1642 mataeology1656 fiddle-come-faddle1663 apple sauce1672 balderdash1674 flummery1749 slang1762 all my eye1763 diddle-daddle1778 (all) my eye (and) Betty Martin1781 twaddle1782 blancmange1790 fudge1791 twiddle-twaddle1798 bothering1803 fee-faw-fum1811 slip-slop1811 nash-gab1816 flitter-tripe1822 effutiation1823 bladderdash1826 ráiméis1828 fiddlededee1843 pickles1846 rot1846 kelter1847 bosh1850 flummadiddle1850 poppycock1852 Barnum1856 fribble-frabble1859 kibosh1860 skittle1864 cod1866 Collyweston1867 punk1869 slush1869 stupidness1873 bilge-water1878 flapdoodle1878 tommyrot1880 ruck1882 piffle1884 flamdoodle1888 razzmatazz1888 balls1889 pop1890 narrischkeit1892 tosh1892 footle1894 tripe1895 crap1898 bunk1900 junk1906 quatsch1907 bilge1908 B.S.1912 bellywash1913 jazz1913 wash1913 bullshit?1915 kid-stakes1916 hokum1917 bollock1919 bullsh1919 bushwa1920 noise1920 bish-bosh1922 malarkey1923 posh1923 hooey1924 shit1924 heifer dust1927 madam1927 baloney1928 horse feathers1928 phonus-bolonus1929 rhubarb1929 spinach1929 toffeea1930 tomtit1930 hockey1931 phoney baloney1933 moody1934 cockalorum1936 cock1937 mess1937 waffle1937 berley1941 bull dust1943 crud1943 globaloney1943 hubba-hubba1944 pish1944 phooey1946 asswipe1947 chickenshit1947 slag1948 batshit1950 goop1950 slop1952 cack1954 doo-doo1954 cobbler1955 horse shit1955 nyamps1955 pony1956 horse manure1957 waffling1958 bird shit1959 codswallop1959 how's your father1959 dog shit1963 cods1965 shmegegge1968 pucky1970 taradiddle1970 mouthwash1971 wank1974 gobshite1977 mince1985 toss1990 arse1993 1782 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 125 Fanny Burney has taken possession of the ear of those who found their amusement in reading her twaddle (that piece of old fashioned slang I should not have dared to write or utter, within hearing of my dear mother). 1825 W. Scott Jrnl. 29 Nov. (1939) 22 A letter..quoting the twaddle of some old woman. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists v. 257 Pouring out endless volumes of sentimental twaddle. 1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xii. 145 The odious small-talk and twaddle he was compelled to hear. 1878 M. C. Jackson Chaperon's Cares II. xx. 243 No need to talk a lot of twaddle and nonsense to a woman with brains. 1906 F. Treves Highways & Byways Dorset xviii. 291 He was guided by personal..experience, and not by the twaddle of theorists. b. In extended sense: Something trashy or worthless; rubbish. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless hawc1000 turdc1275 fille1297 dusta1300 lead1303 skitc1330 naught1340 vanityc1340 wrakea1350 rushc1350 dirt1357 fly's wing1377 goose-wing1377 fartc1390 chaff?a1400 nutshella1400 shalec1400 yardc1400 wrack1472 pelfrya1529 trasha1529 dreg1531 trish-trash1542 alchemy1547 beggary?1548 rubbish1548 pelfa1555 chip1556 stark naught1562 paltry?1566 rubbish1566 riff-raff1570 bran1574 baggage1579 nihil1579 trush-trash1582 stubblea1591 tartar1590 garbage1592 bag of winda1599 a cracked or slit groat1600 kitchen stuff1600 tilta1603 nothing?1608 bauble1609 countera1616 a pair of Yorkshire sleeves in a goldsmith's shop1620 buttermilk1630 dross1632 paltrement1641 cattle1643 bagatelle1647 nothingness1652 brimborion1653 stuff1670 flap-dragon1700 mud1706 caput mortuuma1711 snuff1778 twaddle1786 powder-post1790 traffic1828 junk1836 duffer1852 shice1859 punk1869 hogwash1870 cagmag1875 shit1890 tosh1892 tripe1895 dreck1905 schlock1906 cannon fodder1917 shite1928 skunk1929 crut1937 chickenshit1938 crud1943 Mickey Mouse1958 gick1959 garbo1978 turd1978 pants1994 1786 Lounger (1787) II. 197 The Ton of London is mere Twaddle,..the only right Ton is to be found in Paris. 1842 R. H. Barham Babes in Wood in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 189 Greek and Latin old twaddle I call! †2. (See quots. and bore n.² 1) Obsolete slang. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > difficulty or complexity > instance of > and confused snarl1631 tangle1757 twaddle1785 an ill-favoured pirn1828 muddle1857 fankle1890 tie-up1906 snarl-up1960 1785 European Mag. & London Rev. Dec. 473/2 The favourite phrases fall, and are no more, The Rage, the Thing, the Twaddle, and the Bore. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Pref. 2 The fashionable words, or favourite expressions of the day,..vanish without leaving a trace behind, such were the late fashionable words, a Bore and a Twaddle, among the great vulgar. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Twaddle, perplexity, confusion, or anything else: a fashionable term that for a while succeeded that of bore. †3. A person who talks or writes twaddle; a twaddler. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > one who indulges in gabbler1624 mataeologian1653 mataeologue1716 twaddler1787 twaddle1802 piffler1885 bullshitter1941 waffler1959 1802 J. West Infidel Father II. 100 [He] acknowledged himself to be..bored by detestable twaddles. 1813 T. Moore Intercepted Lett. ii. 29 He thinks..the imagination..Could only enter in the noddles Of dull and ledger-keeping twaddles. 1830 T. B. Macaulay R. Montgomery's Poems in Ess. (1887) 142 A respectable and pious gentleman, whose principal fault is that he is something of a twaddle. a1838 C. Morris Lyra Urban. (1840) II. 187 I fear I'm becoming a twaddle. 4. attributive or adj. Of the nature of twaddle; empty and prosy; in quot. 1830, feeble. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1830 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 20 The difference between the twaddle and the vigorous in shooting. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 633 Historical Paintings.., gilt frames and twaddle-criticisms. 1866 A. Trollope Belton Estate I. v. 115 I hate the twaddle talk of love. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 219 Twaddle truisms instead of vital truths. Derivatives ˈtwaddlesome adj. full of or addicted to twaddle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [adjective] tooma1250 beggarly1526 trumpery1576 balductum1577 skimble-skamble1598 nonsense1621 warbling1621 flim-flam1631 nonsensical1645 unsensical1692 fiddlecome1697 waffling1698 mataeological1716 flummery1749 water-gruelish1788 slip-sloppish1797 twaddling1804 twaddle1830 twaddly1841 fee-faw-fumish1846 poppycock1852 boshy1860 twaddlesome1865 moonshiny1880 cockalorum1881 tommyrotic1894 crappy1928 ballsy1942 farkakte1960 1865 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Nov. 10 A grim villain immensely stupid, and..a virtuous duke immensely twaddlesome. 1892 G. Meredith Let. 25 Apr. (1970) II. 1080 Dorothy Penrose, an enormous bulk, is uninterruptedly twaddlesome. 1966 K. S. Sorabji in ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept ii. 65 The twaddlesome sentimentalities about trusting the ultimate judgement and good sense of the public. ˈtwaddledom n. the realm of twaddle, the habit of uttering twaddle.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > state of being nonsensicality1652 nonsensicalness1674 twaddledom1837 1837 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 4 454 The twaddledom of old age. ˈtwaddleize v. (transitive) to reduce to twaddle.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > write or express in prose [verb (transitive)] > turn into prose > and enfeeble style twaddleize1850 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 547/1 Dulling his [Burns's] humour, prosefying his poetry, and twaddleising his vigour. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online September 2020). twaddlev.¹ Etymology: < twaddle n.; or perhaps altered, like it, < twattle v.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtwaddle. 1. intransitive. To utter twaddle; to talk or write in a silly, empty, or trashy style. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > use language nonsensically [verb (intransitive)] roya1450 to talk (or speak) at rovers1542 nonsense1822 squiddle1824 twaddle1825 fudge1834 buncomize1871 to be full of prunes1887 waffle1900 jive1928 bullshit1942 to talk out of one's arse1973 1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 375 Pope..beats them hollow. Catch him twaddling. 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 14 Feb. (1946) 144 I am afraid I am twaddling. 1862 W. M. Thackeray Dessein's in Roundabout Papers ‘What is that old fellow twaddlin' about?’ cries Brummel. 2. a. transitive. To utter as twaddle, or in a trashy and prosy way. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > utter nonsensically [verb (transitive)] rove1581 trifle1823 fudge1834 twaddle1837 crap1928 bullshit1942 waffle1957 1837 W. H. Prescott in G. Ticknor Life W. H. Prescott (1864) 271 (note) They twaddle out their humour as if they were afraid of its biting too hard. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets viii. 34 You are not bound to worship, and twaddle pretended raptures. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 19 Jan. 7/1 Instead of twaddling out platitudes. b. with away: To spend or pass in empty talk. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > empty, idle talk > utter in foolish matter [verb (transitive)] trattlea1425 babblec1450 pratea1475 drivel1752 twaddle1826 maunder1834 bibble-babble1888 1826 W. Scott Jrnl. 11 Apr. (1939) 152 We twaddled away the evening well enough. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † twaddlev.² Etymology: Compare twaddle v.¹ and twiddle v.¹ Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To trifle or play with. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrespect > [verb (transitive)] > by trifling with trifle with1523 sport1533 twaddle1797 palter1814 project1828 trivialize1846 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 3 I hate twaddling with other people's happiness. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021). twaddlev.³ Etymology: Compare waddle v., and dialect quaddle in similar sense.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtwaddle. Chiefly dialect. intransitive. ‘To walk with a feeble, uncertain gait’ ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 1823 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. 43 The unfortunate gentleman had walked, or rather twaddled to the office in a pair of loose slippers. Derivatives twaddle-toed adj. ΚΠ 1907 Daily News 20 Mar. 6 Greenfinches..have an unmistakable twaddle-toed walk that..makes them look like parrots. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.adj.1782v.¹1825v.²1797v.³1823
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twaddlen.adj.

Derivatives

twaddlev.1

† twaddlev.2

twaddlev.3

Derivatives

twaddlev.¹

† twaddlev.²

twaddlev.³