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Words wearing a suit with nothing underneath.
means Speech or writing that's wordy, pompous, or trivial — talk that sounds important but says nothing.
from Likely a blend or variant of 'twattle' (itself meaning idle chatter), which dates back to the 17th century — part of a whole family of echoey, mouth-filling words like twaddle, twattle, and tattle that imitate the loose flapping sound of someone talking too much about too little.
- origin
- probably from twattle, 17th century gossip talk
- sounds like
- what it means, which rarely happens
- synonym
- drivel with better manners
- usage
- polite British word for total nonsense