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1 пустая болтовня
1) General subject: cobblers, gossipy conversation, hog-wash, idle talk, jive, lip labour, lip work, lip-labour, lip-work, make talk, maunder, maundering, mere declamation, moonshine, palaver, poppycock, prittle prattle, rigmarole, small talk, talkie talkie, talkie-talkie, talky talk, twaddle, twiddle twaddle, twiddle-twaddle, vapouring, waffle, blatherskite, pointless blathering3) American: kafooster4) Diplomatic term: hogwash5) Jargon: jazz, scuttle-butt, yackety-yak, yakitty-yak, guff goff6) Advertising: loose talk7) Makarov: idle chatter, innocent tattling8) Taboo: piss and wind9) Idiomatic expression: more heat than light (The meeting that was held to discuss the problem generated more heat than light. Встреча, которая состоялась для обсуждения проблемы, вылилась в пустую болтовню.) -
2 пустая болтовня
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twiddle-twaddle — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: reduplication of twaddle : empty chatter : twaddle … Useful english dictionary
twaddle — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, bibble babble, blab, blabber, blah blah, blather, blether, blethers, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, cackle, caquet, caqueterie, chat, chatter, chitter… … Moby Thesaurus
twaddle — twaddler, n. twaddly, adj. /twod l/, n., v., twaddled, twaddling. n. 1. trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious talk or writing. v.i. 2. to talk in a trivial, feeble, silly, or tedious manner; prate. v.t. 3. to utter as twaddle. [1540 50; var. of… … Universalium
twaddle — twad•dle [[t]ˈtwɒd l[/t]] n. v. dled, dling 1) silly or tedious talk or writing 2) to talk in a silly or tedious manner; prate 3) to utter as twaddle • Etymology: 1540–50; var. of twattle, b. twiddle and tattle … From formal English to slang
twaddle — /ˈtwɒdl / (say twodl) noun 1. trivial, feeble, silly or tedious talk or writing. –verb (twaddled, twaddling) –verb (i) 2. to talk in a trivial, feeble, silly or tedious manner; prate. –verb (t) 3. to utter as twaddle. {variant of twattle, blend… …
fiddle faddle — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, blabber, blather, bombast, claptrap, coquet, dabble, dally, double talk, drivel, drool, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddledeedee, fidget with, finger with,… … Moby Thesaurus
absurdity — Synonyms and related words: absurdness, act of folly, aimlessness, amphigory, anticness, babble, babblement, balderdash, bibble babble, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blabber, blather, blunder, bombast, bootlessness, claptrap, craziness, curiousness,… … Moby Thesaurus
babble — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, absurdity, amphigory, argot, babblement, baffle, balderdash, bavardage, be Greek to, be beyond one, be indiscreet, be insane, be too deep, be unguarded, beat one, betray, betray a… … Moby Thesaurus
balderdash — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, bibble babble, bilge, blabber, blather, bombast, bombastry, bosh, bushwa, claptrap, double talk, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddle faddle, fiddledeedee, flummery, folderol, fudge … Moby Thesaurus
blabber — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, be indiscreet, be unguarded, betray, betray a confidence, betrayer, bibble babble, blab, blabberer, blabbermouth, blah blah, blather, blether, blethers,… … Moby Thesaurus
blather — Synonyms and related words: absurdity, amphigory, babble, babblement, balderdash, bavardage, be stupid, bibble babble, blab, blabber, blah blah, blatherskite, blether, blethers, blither, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunkum, burble, cackle,… … Moby Thesaurus