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twaddlemonger en · NOUN

Etymology

From twaddle + monger.

Meanings

1. (derogatory, humorous, rare) One who writes or publishes twaddle.
   • 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:
   • 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
   • the twaddlemonger of lower George-street 1848 July 8, The Atlas, Sydney, Australia, page 342:

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