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twaddling, ppl. a.|ˈtwɒdlɪŋ|
[f. twaddle n. or v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Having the character of twaddle; empty and prosy; rubbishy.
1804Edin. Rev. Jan. 448 And this twaddling stuff is supposed to be spoken by John of Gaunt! 1832Lady Granville Lett. 8 Sept. (1894) II. 132 Dearest sis, what a twaddling letter this is. 1858Ecclesiologist XIX. 38 The twaddling derivation of Pointed architecture from interlacing boughs. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, It's a volume of poems,..most of them seem to be twaddling stuff.
b. Petty, paltry, trifling, insignificant: = twattling ppl. a. 3. rare—1.
1852W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 12 Jan. (1863) 8 A little twaddling weapon.
2. Uttering or addicted to talking twaddle.
1826F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 92 [I] heard an old twaddling special pleader. 1862Shirley Nugæ Crit. xi. 470 The position..assumed..by twaddling doctrinaires, and political pedants. |