Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who twaddles; a babbler; a prater.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

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  • noun One who twaddles.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle

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Examples

  • What a load of old GuF and twaddle from the GuFster and twaddler in chief.

    Archive 2008-01-06 2008

  • But while the Earl thus withdrew from public society, it was necessary, at least natural, that he should choose some one with whom to share the solitude of his own apartment; and Mowbray, superior in rank to the half-pay whisky-drinking Captain MacTurk; in dash to Winterblossom, who was broken down, and turned twaddler; and in tact and sense to Sir Bingo

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • What a load of old GuF and twaddle from the GuFster and twaddler in chief.

    Guido Fawkes: GuF Crashes On With His Hain Vendetta 2008

  • Bingo Binks himself, who had given himself this trouble to secure the settlement of the bet; conjecturing that a man with a fashionable exterior, who could throw twelve yards of line at a cast with such precision, might consider the invitation of Winterblossom as that of an old twaddler, and care as little for the good graces of an affected blue-stocking and her côterie, whose conversation, in Sir

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • If only I could get the newest back-lit, bluetooth, high resolution, 64 Mb turnip twaddler, I wouldn't ever need another gadget.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Neal Ford 2005

  • If only I could get the newest back-lit, bluetooth, high resolution, 64 Mb turnip twaddler, I wouldn't ever need another gadget.

    Hedonic Adaptation Neal Ford 2005

  • For they say, "'Our life's but a span; '[37] we can only live once; why should you heed your father's threats? he's an old twaddler, he has one foot in the grave; we shall soon hoist him up and carry him off to burial."

    Plutarch's Morals 46-120? Plutarch

  • Every teacher or twaddler who denies it or suppresses it, is an enemy of life.

    The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Is this more wanton, say, than to devote weeks to the consideration of the particular way in which your friend Mr. Nash may be most intensely a twaddler and a bore?

    The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

  • I should, however, feel inclined to forgive much of his extraordinary romancing for the admirable manner in which he settled that chattering twaddler, Bishop Burnet:

    Notes and Queries, Number 183, April 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

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