[Reduplication of TWADDLE sb.: cf. TWITTLE-TWATTLE.] Mere twaddle or foolish chatter. Also attrib.
1798. Charlotte Smith, Yng. Philos., I. 164. Then my Aunt will come with her tendernesses, and her tears, and twiddle twaddle ways of dear niecing and sweet girling me.
1834. Standard, 6 Dec., 3/3. The twiddle twaddle dandy denunciations of Tom Duncombe.
1868. J. Greenwood, in Morn. Star, 8 June. His schoolmaster … gave him to learn twiddle-twaddle rubbish, without the least flavour in it!
1886. Pall Mall G., 31 Aug., 11/2. Mann … reserved the hottest passages of his fiery speech for denunciations of the ‘twiddle-twaddle of trade unionism.’
