twaddling, ppl. a.
(ˈtwɒdlɪŋ)
[f. twaddle n. or v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Having the character of twaddle; empty and prosy; rubbishy.
| 1804 Edin. Rev. Jan. 448 And this twaddling stuff is supposed to be spoken by John of Gaunt! 1832 Lady Granville Lett. 8 Sept. (1894) II. 132 Dearest sis, what a twaddling letter this is. 1858 Ecclesiologist XIX. 38 The twaddling derivation of Pointed architecture from interlacing boughs. 1859 Geo. Eliot A. Bede v, It's a volume of poems,..most of them seem to be twaddling stuff. |
b. Petty, paltry, trifling, insignificant: = twattling ppl. a. 3. rare—1.
| 1852 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 12 Jan. (1863) 8 A little twaddling weapon. |
2. Uttering or addicted to talking twaddle.
| 1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 92 [I] heard an old twaddling special pleader. 1862 Shirley Nugæ Crit. xi. 470 The position..assumed..by twaddling doctrinaires, and political pedants. |