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{
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"twaddle":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": one that twaddles : twaddler":[],
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": prate , babble":[],
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": silly idle talk : drivel":[],
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": something insignificant or worthless : nonsense":[
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"that idea is pure twaddle"
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]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"We don't believe that twaddle anymore.",
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"the novel's elaborate theory detailing a supposed 2,000-year-old conspiracy is mostly tiresome twaddle",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Much of the research and the dissemination of this twaddle is funded by the Gates Foundation, which last year spent $642 million for its U.S. program, including Pathways and other initiatives that focus on eliminating white supremacy from math. \u2014 Kenin M. Spivak, National Review , 16 Sep. 2021",
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"To their immense credit, Oasis didn\u2019t traffic in peace-and-love twaddle but reveled in their roles as snarling pub louts who became kings of the pop world. \u2014 Kyle Smith, National Review , 11 Sep. 2019",
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"After Colangelo was removed and the new order installed, there has been the standard twaddle about working to achieve collaborative decisions among the team\u2019s leaders. \u2014 Bob Ford, Philly.com , 18 June 2018",
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"And just like that, America turned Thursday from harrumphing about Roseanne Barr's racist Twitter twaddle to sputtering about Samantha Bee's profane TV patter. \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 31 May 2018",
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"The word is chiefly British, deriving from footle, as a verb meaning to act or talk foolishly, to waste time, and as a noun meaning twaddle or nonsense. \u2014 John E. Mcintyre, baltimoresun.com , 14 Feb. 2018",
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"In this ultra-premium, jargon-forward twaddle , the only acceptable word is \u2018 \u2014 Rami Grunbaum, The Seattle Times , 19 July 2017",
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"Gone is the original\u2019s joyful sense of mischief; what\u2019s left is an inoffensive piece of twaddle that never fully appreciates the ineluctable bond between community spirit and a drop of the hard stuff. \u2014 Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times , 11 May 2017"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"1782, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun",
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"1826, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"probably alteration of English dialect twattle idle talk":"Noun"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8tw\u00e4-d\u1d4al"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"applesauce",
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"balderdash",
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"baloney",
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"boloney",
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"beans",
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"bilge",
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"blah",
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"blah-blah",
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"blarney",
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"blather",
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"blatherskite",
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"blither",
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"bosh",
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"bull",
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"bunk",
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"bunkum",
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"buncombe",
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"claptrap",
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"codswallop",
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"crapola",
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"crock",
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"drivel",
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"drool",
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"fiddle",
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"fiddle-faddle",
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"fiddlesticks",
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"flannel",
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"flapdoodle",
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"folderol",
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"falderal",
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"folly",
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"foolishness",
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"fudge",
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"garbage",
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"guff",
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"hogwash",
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"hokeypokey",
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"hokum",
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"hoodoo",
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"hooey",
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"horsefeathers",
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"humbug",
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"humbuggery",
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"jazz",
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"malarkey",
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"malarky",
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"moonshine",
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"muck",
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"nerts",
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"nonsense",
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"nuts",
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"piffle",
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"poppycock",
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"punk",
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"rot",
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"rubbish",
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"senselessness",
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"silliness",
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"slush",
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"stupidity",
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"taradiddle",
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"tarradiddle",
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"tommyrot",
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"tosh",
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"trash",
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"trumpery"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-080156",
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"type":[
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"noun",
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"verb"
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]
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},
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"twain":{
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"antonyms":[],
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"definitions":{
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": couple , pair":[],
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": two":[],
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"Mark \u2014 see clemens":[]
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},
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"examples":[
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"Noun",
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"I like rap and my parents like country music, and never the twain shall meet in our house.",
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"Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
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"Sports are sports and real life is real life and never the twain shall meet. \u2014 Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer , 31 May 2022",
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"But never the twain did meet until college became the country\u2019s sole (respectable, reliable) pathway to economic advancement. \u2014 Ryan Craig, Forbes , 15 Oct. 2021",
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"Ne\u2019er shall the twain between classical music and jazz meet. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com , 17 Mar. 2022",
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"America is beset by tribalism, a poisonous partisanship: red camp, blue camp, and never the twain shall meet. \u2014 Jay Nordlinger, National Review , 22 July 2021",
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"Monday night's season 2 finale of the TNT science fiction show Snowpiercer saw the titular train split in twain , much to the anger of Sean Bean's villainous Mr. Wilford. \u2014 Clark Collis, EW.com , 30 Mar. 2021",
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"Harris, as the nation\u2019s first vice president who is Black, as well as South Asian and female, will be under particular pressure to make the twain meet. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 Feb. 2021",
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"The twains of the have and have-nots, blacks and whites, privileged and oppressed still vow to never meet. \u2014 Dallas News , 2 June 2020",
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"Reuters/Will Dunham Few topics arouse the passions of Americans like god and government and whether the twain shall meet. \u2014 Ephrat Livni, Quartz , 21 Jan. 2020"
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],
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"first_known_use":{
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"12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun",
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"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
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},
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Middle English, from Old English tw\u0113gen \u2014 more at two":"Adjective"
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8tw\u0101n"
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],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"synonyms":[
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"brace",
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"couple",
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"couplet",
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"duo",
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"dyad",
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"pair",
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"twosome"
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],
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-124728",
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"type":[
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"adjective",
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"biographical name",
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"noun",
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"pronoun"
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]
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},
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"twayblade":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": any of various orchids (genera Listera and Liparis ) often having two leaves":[]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8tw\u0101-\u02ccbl\u0101d"
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],
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"synonyms":[],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"English dialect tway two":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000457"
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}
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} |