Twaddle vs Blather - What's the difference?
twaddle | blather |
To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
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(pejorative) nonsensical or foolish talk
As nouns the difference between twaddle and blather
is that twaddle is empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish while blather is nonsensical or foolish talk.As verbs the difference between twaddle and blather
is that twaddle is to talk or write nonsense; to prattle while blather is to talk rapidly without making much sense.twaddle
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;nonsense * 1918 , , Prelude , Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 118, *: Yet she knew that she'd send it and she'd always write that kind of twaddle to Nan Pym. ;rubbish * 1887 , , A Study In Scarlet , Beeton's Christmas Annual, (Chapter 2 - The Science of Deduction), pages 1-95 (exact page number not known). *: "What ineffable twaddle !" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table, "I never read such rubbish in my life."Verb
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling .}}