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Twaddle is talk or writing that you think is empty and foolish — words that sound like they mean something but do not. You use it to dismiss what someone has said. The feeling in it is important: it is , but it is a mild, old-fashioned kind of scorn, the sort of thing an older British person says while putting the newspaper down. Because of that, it sounds much gentler than the rude words English has for the same idea, and it can even sound a bit . It is most often used with words that make it stronger: 'utter twaddle', 'complete twaddle', 'a load of twaddle'. It is uncountable, so you say 'that's twaddle', never 'a twaddle' or 'twaddles'. It is far more common in British English than American, and it is not really a young person's word — a student is much more likely to read it in a book or hear it in a British drama than to hear a say it. There is also a rare verb, to twaddle, meaning to talk on and on about nothing, but you will almost never meet it.
廢話、鬼話、胡說八道（語氣偏老派、偏英式，比罵人輕）
組成A changed form of an older word twattle, from around 1556, which also meant idle chatter. Where twattle itself came from, nobody really knows.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Twaddlename
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A surname.
twaddlenoun/ˈtwɒdəl/
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Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
- You're talking a load of twaddle. Get your facts straight, man!
- Still, being unfortunate enough to belong to that small but respectable minority who regard Mr. Tupper's versicular philosophy as superficial and conceited twaddle,—as a new manifestation to these latter days of weakness and sentimentalism under the solemn form of the Oracular,[…].
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One who twaddles; a twaddler.
twaddleverb/ˈtwɒdəl/
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To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.
- To Edward […] he was terrible, nerve-inflaming, poisonously asphyxiating. He sat rocking himself in the late Mr. Churchill's swing chair, smoking and twaddling.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。