twaddle

intr.v., -dled, -dling, -dles.
To talk foolishly; prate.

n.
Foolish, trivial, or idle talk or chatter.

[Probably variant of dialectal twattle, perhaps alteration of TATTLE.]

twaddler twad'dler n.

noun

1. Unintelligible or foolish talk: babble, blather, blatherskite, double talk, gabble, gibberish, jabber, jabberwocky, jargon, nonsense, prate, prattle. See words.
2. Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, idiocy, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash. Informal tommyrot. Slang applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge/ignorance.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: pretentious or silly talk or writing
  Synonyms: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh

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The verb twaddle has one meaning:

Meaning #1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
  Synonyms: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - vrøvl, ævl
v. intr. - vrøvle, ævle

Nederlands (Dutch)
onzin, zwetsen

Français (French)
n. - balivernes
v. intr. - radoter

Deutsch (German)
n. - Gewäsch, Unsinn
v. - faseln

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - σαχλαμάρα, μπαρούφα
v. - αερολογώ, μωρολογώ, ανοηταίνω

Italiano (Italian)
parlare a vanvera, stupidaggine

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tolice (f), disparate (f), tagarelice (f)
v. - tagarelar

Русский (Russian)
пустяки, чушь, пустая болтовня

Español (Spanish)
n. - tonterías
v. intr. - decir tonterías

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - svammel, smörja, trams
v. - svamla, dilla, prata smörja

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
废话, 闲聊, 讲废话

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 廢話, 閒聊
v. intr. - 講廢話

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 쓸데없는 소리, 졸작
v. intr. - 쓸데없는 소리를 하다, 시시한 글을 쓰다

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - むだ口, 駄作

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) هذر, ثرثرة (فعل) يثرثر, يهذر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮חסר-תועלת, חסר-היגיון, שטויות, פטפוט, קשקוש‬
v. intr. - ‮דיבר שטויות, קישקש (בכתב או בע"פ)‬

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