Meanings
plural twaddlemongers
- derogatoryhumorousrareOne who writes or publishes twaddle.
the twaddlemonger of lower George-street
1848 July 8, The Atlas, Sydney, Australia, page 3422 more examples
By a twaddlemonger trash will be enthusiastically received, while anything more serious will be dismissed as highbrow and unintelligible.
1948 March 15, Ruthven Todd. Contribution to "To Be or Not: 5 Opinions on R. P. Blackmur's The Good European". The Tiger's Eye vol. 1 no. 3 p. 68So, all the way from Section Four South to Section One North, Kitty had synopsized her favorite romance novel by the writer Mrs. Radcliffe (whom Mr. Bennet usually referred to as “the noted twaddlemonger Mrs. Rotwit”).
2011, Steve Hockensmith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dreadfully Ever After, →ISBN, page 142
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