ppl. a. [f. TWADDLE sb. or v.1 + -ING2.]

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  1.  Having the character of twaddle; empty and prosy; rubbishy.

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1804.  Edin. Rev., Jan., 448. And this twaddling stuff is supposed to be spoken by John of Gaunt!

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1832.  Lady Granville, Lett., 8 Sept. (1894), II. 132. Dearest sis, what a twaddling letter this is.

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1858.  Ecclesiologist, XIX. 38. The twaddling derivation of Pointed architecture from interlacing boughs.

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1859.  Geo. Eliot, A. Bede, v. It’s a volume of poems,… most of them seem to be twaddling stuff.

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  b.  Petty, paltry, trifling, insignificant: = TWATTLING ppl. a. 3. rare–1.

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1852.  W. C. Baldwin, Afr. Hunting, 12 Jan. (1863), 8. A little twaddling weapon.

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  2.  Uttering or addicted to talking twaddle.

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1826.  F. Reynolds, Life & Times, II. 92. [I] heard an old twaddling special pleader.

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1862.  Shirley, Nugue Crit., xi. 470. The position … assumed … by twaddling doctrinaires, and political pedants.

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