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  • 61twiddle — Synonyms and related words: babble, cackle, chat, chatter, come in contact, coquet, dabble, dally, do nothing, feel, feel of, fiddle, fiddle with, fiddle faddle, fidget, fidget with, finger, finger with, flick, flirt, fool, fool around, fool with …

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  • 62trifle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. bagatelle, nothing, triviality; gewgaw, trinket, knickknack, gimcrack; particle, bit, morsel, trace. See littleness, unimportance. v. i. toy, play, dally, fool. See neglect. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A… …

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  • 63fudge — I. interj. Nonsense, stuff, moonshine, pshaw, fiddle de dee, fiddle faddle. II. n. Nonsense, stuff, moonshine, twaddle. See balderdash. III. v. a. 1. Stick together, thrust together, fabricate, make up, contrive. 2. Thrust in, foist, interpolate …

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  • 64dawdle — v 1. waste time, take one s time or one s own sweet time, kill time, fritter time away; idle, trifle, finick, potter, fiddle, piddle, Inf. fiddle faddle; dally, dilly dally, procrastinate, Inf. diddle, shilly shally, vacillate. 2. loiter, poke,… …

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  • 65drivel — v 1. drool, drip saliva, slaver, slobber, slabber; sputter, splutter; snivel, sniffle. 2. babble, gibber, Sl. gibber jabber, jargon; twaddle, Brit. twattle, blather, blether, Inf. blither, drool; talk nonsense, Inf. talk through one s hat; ramble …

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  • 66falderal — n 1. nonsense, gibberish, Jabberwocky, 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; …

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  • 67hogwash — 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,… …

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  • 68lounge — v 1. idle, pass time idly, trifle, potter, fiddle, piddle, Inf. fiddle faddle; dally, dilly dally, Inf. lallygag; daydream, shilly shally, procrastinate. 2. loll, Brit. Dial. lollop, rest, lie on; lie around, recline on, lean on, repose on;… …

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  • 69mumbo jumbo — n 1. incantation, chant, magic formula, magic word, invocation, conjuration, ritual; hocus pocus, open sesame, abracadabra; charm, spell, rune, Scot. cantrip. 2. claptrap, rodomontade, fustian, bombast, rant, Sl. hot air; nonsense, fiddle de dee …

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  • 70nonsense — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, nonsensi calness, nonsensicality; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, stupidity, fatuity, fatuousness; meaninglessness, self contradiction, contradiction, invalidity; incongruity, incongruousness,… …

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