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Twaddle vs Befuddle - What's the difference?

twaddle | befuddle |

As verbs the difference between twaddle and befuddle

is that twaddle is to talk or write nonsense; to prattle while befuddle is (label) to perplex, confuse (someone).

As a noun twaddle

is empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.

twaddle

English

(wikipedia twaddle)

Noun

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

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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

  • 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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    befuddle

    English

    Verb

    (befuddl)
  • (label) to perplex, confuse (someone)
  • (label) to stupefy someone, especially with alcohol
  • * 1983 , Basile Kerblay, Modern Soviet Society , page 290
    • ... to the American and French alcoholics, who drink in order to get drunk and befuddle the brain

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