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Swaddled vs Twaddled - What's the difference?

swaddled | twaddled |

As verbs the difference between swaddled and twaddled

is that swaddled is (swaddle) while twaddled is (twaddle).

swaddled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (swaddle)

    • swaddle

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.
  • (archaic) To beat; cudgel.

    • Related terms

    * swaddling

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.
  • * Addison
    • They put me in bed in all my swaddles .

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    twaddled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (twaddle)

    • twaddle

    English

    (wikipedia twaddle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish
  • A twaddler.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Quotations

    ;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

  • To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
  • *, chapter=12
    • , title= 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 .}}

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