Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of one who twaddles; silly. empty talk; twaddle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- a. & n. from
twaddle , v.
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- verb Present participle of
twaddle .
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Examples
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The larger issue, of course, is the use of online surfing and brain twaddling as a kind of flat affect soothing behavior which does not, in fact, soothe.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. kateelliott 2008
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It certainly would not do to have one's friends "twaddling" in one's pocket.
The Union - All Categories By Lucille Lovestedt 2009
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Or, more truthfully, really pissing stupid attention-seeking people twaddling on about stuff you'd see on the front of Pick Me Up magazine.
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Like the convocation of Worms or the equivocation odf Strasbourg, a twaddling pre-occupation of pin-heads who are totally divorced from reality as it is lived, their skulls full of the rarefied air of worthyness and moral vanity.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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That man Verne is never done sniping at us ... aye, those two British officers in that twaddling book about a comet hitting the earth, what a pair of muttonheaded by-joves they are!
Watershed 2010
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All day I want that twaddling Marxist ingenue to fail
I Too Want Barack Obama to Fail - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009
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Should that change in the future and I do start twaddling, I assure you I will let you know, but in the meantime you can assume that any Twitters bearing my name are counterfeit and that I am reserving my words for this blog and Bicycling magazine.
Illusions: Fake Twitters and Strange Looks BikeSnobNYC 2009
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House Beautiful had started to irk me: its former male editor — odd and smarmy — was always twaddling on in fake-folksy manner about his adorable daughter “Madison.”
Home Alone 2006
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House Beautiful had started to irk me: its former male editor — odd and smarmy — was always twaddling on in fake-folksy manner about his adorable daughter “Madison.”
Home Alone 2006
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“A very pious manner of spending his time,” Pen said, laughing and thinking that his uncle was falling into the twaddling state.
bilby commented on the word twaddling
"Only when I saw a group of women struggling to wash in an encrusted puddle no larger than a tea tray did I begin to understand the importance of washing to these people and then more than ever I cursed the kind of development which brings electricity and the twaddling soap operas of TV Globo to the poor and will not, cannot, lay a water pipeline to save their babies' lives."
- 'The São Francisco', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008