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单词 twaddler
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twaddlern.

/ˈtwɒdlə/
Forms: Also twadler.
Etymology: < twaddle n. or twaddle v.1 + -er suffix1.
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
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mataeologian1653
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twaddler1787
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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).
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