Twaddle
WordNet
noun
(1) Pretentious or silly talk or writing
verb
(2) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
WiktionaryText
Etymology
May derive from a court case Twaddle v Murphy [1881] 8LR Ir 123 where additional superfluous words were ignored. Instead of using the formula 'in fee simple', the phrase 'in fee simple forever' was used.
Noun
Quotations
nonsense
- 1918, Katherine Mansfield, 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.