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71hogwash — n 1. swill, slop, refuse, Dial. culch; garbage, waste, offal; dregs, remains, offscourings; leavings, sweepings, scraps, orts, leftovers; remainder, residue, residuum, scum, filth. 2. junk, worthless stuff, trumpery; trifles, trinkets,… …
72nonsense — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, nonsensi calness, nonsensicality; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, stupidity, fatuity, fatuousness; meaninglessness, self contradiction, contradiction, invalidity; incongruity, incongruousness,… …
73patter — I v 1. tiptoe, walk lightly; scurry, scuttle, trip along, skip, hie. 2. tap, pitter patter, drum, pound, beat; thrum, palpitate, pulsate. 3. spatter, sprinkle, splash, plash; fleck, dapple, stipple. n 4. pitter patter, tapping, rat a tat,… …
74prate — v 1. palaver, blab, bleat, Inf. gab; gush, Inf. spout, Sl. run off or on at the mouth; gossip, buzz, tell tales, repeat everything one hears; be loquacious or talkative, ramble, maunder. 2. babble, twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, drivel; talk… …
75rigmarole — n 1. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; jargon, Sl. jive, Greek, Chiefly Southern U.S. Choctaw;… …
76tattle — v 1. blab, blurt out, gush, Inf. spout; let slip, reveal, divulge secrets; tattletale, tell on, inform on, Inf. snitch on, Sl. squeal on, Sl. rat on, Sl. fink on. 2. gossip, tittle tattle, buzz, talk idly, Sl. shoot the breeze, Inf. gab, Sl. gas …
77tommyrot — n 1. nonsense, falderal, gibberish, Jabberwocky; babble, babbling, babblement, Fr. bavardage; twaddle, twaddling, Both Brit. twattle, twattling; blather, blathering, drivel, driveling, drool, drooling; hocus pocus, mumbo jumbo, fiddle de dee;… …
78twaddle — n 1. blather, blathering, twaddling, Brit. twattle, Brit. twattling; drivel, nonsense, moonshine, Fr. bavardage. gobbledegook, humbug, flummery, Sl. bunk, rubbish, Inf. rot, Sl. garbage, Sl. horsefeathers; balderdash, hogwash, stuff and nonsense …
79prattle — I UK [ˈpræt(ə)l] / US verb [intransitive] Word forms prattle : present tense I/you/we/they prattle he/she/it prattles present participle prattling past tense prattled past participle prattled to talk in a silly way for a long time about… …
80prattle — prat•tle [[t]ˈpræt l[/t]] v. tled, tling, n. 1) to talk in a childish or simple minded way; chatter or babble; prate 2) to utter by chattering or babbling 3) the act of prattling 4) chatter; babble • Etymology: 1525–35; < MLG pratelen to… …
