twaddlemonger

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noun

One who writes or publishes twaddle.

Scrabble 21

Meanings

nountwaddlemonger (plural twaddlemongers)

plural twaddlemongers

  1. derogatoryhumorousrareOne who writes or publishes twaddle.

    the twaddlemonger of lower George-street

    1848 July 8, The Atlas, Sydney, Australia, page 342
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    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. 68

    So, 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

Origin

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APA

twaddlemonger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twaddlemonger

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Chicago

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