单词 | twaddler |
释义 | twaddlern. One who twaddles; one who talks or writes twaddle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] > one who indulges in gabbler1624 mataeologian1653 mataeologue1716 twaddler1787 twaddle1802 piffler1885 bullshitter1941 waffler1959 1787 14th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm. App. Pt. I: MSS Duke of Rutland (1894) III. 395 in Parl. Papers (C.7476) L. i. 1 Pray be particularly attentive to them (even tho' they be twaddlers). 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers l. 552 A laugh at the style of this ungrammatical twaddler. 1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. x. 209 One of your sickly, sentimental twaddlers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1787 |
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