† squiddlev.
Obsolete.
= quiddle v. 1.
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
1824 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) I. 322 I sat squiddling with them for some time.
1834 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 157 Mrs. Damer and many others sit and squiddle in the first room.
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