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Swaddle vs. Twaddle

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Swaddleverb

To bind (a baby) with long narrow strips of cloth.

Twaddlenoun

(uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.

‘You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!’;

Swaddleverb

(archaic) To beat; cudgel.

Twaddlenoun

(countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.

Swaddlenoun

Anything used to swaddle with, such as a cloth or band.

Twaddleverb

To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

Swaddlenoun

Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band.

‘They put me in bed in all my swaddles.’;

Twaddleverb

To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

Swaddleverb

To bind as with a bandage; to bind or warp tightly with clothes; to swathe; - used esp. of infants; as, to swaddle a baby.

‘They swaddled me up in my nightgown with long pieces of linen.’;

Twaddlenoun

Silly talk; gabble; fustian.

‘I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days.’;

Swaddleverb

To beat; to cudgel.

Twaddlenoun

pretentious or silly talk or writing

Swaddleverb

wrap in swaddling clothes;

‘swadddle the infant’;

Twaddleverb

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

Twaddle

As a common noun, twaddle means .

‘idle talk, nonsense’;

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