TWADDLE

v. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.

2.
n.

Silly talk; gabble; fustian. I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days. T. Hughes.