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English
Verb
twaddling
- present participle and gerund of twaddle
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:"All which details, I have no doubt, Jones, who reads this book at his Club, will pronounce to be excessively foolish, trivial, twaddling, and ultra-sentimental."
Noun
twaddling (countable and uncountable, plural twaddlings)
- nonsense; claptrap
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 55, in The History of Pendennis. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:It delighted her to draw out his worldlinesses, and to make the old habitue of clubs and drawing-rooms tell his twaddling tales about great folks, and expound his views of morals.