twaddle

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twaddle englannista suomeksi

  1. lörpötellä, höpöttää

  2. hölynpöly, pöty

  1. Substantiivi

  2. höpinä, höpötys

  3. Verbi

  4. höpöttää

twaddle englanniksi

  1. Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish. (defdate)

  2. (ux)

  3. 1886, Conan Doyle|Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Science of Deduction”, in ''(w)'' ((w); 28th season), London; New York, N.Y.: (w)., November 1887, (OCLC); republished as ''A Study in Scarlet. A Detective Story'', new edition, London: Ward, Lock, Bowden, and Co., 1892, (OCLC), page 28:

  4. "What ineffable twaddle!" I cried, slapping the magazine down on the table; "I never read such rubbish in my life."
  5. 1907, (w), ''The Longest Journey'', Part II, XX ed., p. 203:

  6. I would rather be rude than to listen to twaddle from a man I’ve known.
  7. (RQ:Mansfield Bliss)

  8. One who twaddles; a twaddler.

  9. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

  10. (RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp) he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.