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Rubbish / nonsense / drivel / twaddle / claptrap etc. Virtually unknown outside the UK.
by inkyoto 2y ago
Rubbish / nonsense / drivel / twaddle / claptrap etc. Virtually unknown outside the UK.
- filterfish 2y agotwaddle is word I haven't heard for a long time (I moved from the UK to Australia 27 years ago). It's a great word!
- inkyoto 2y agoIt is a lovely word, indeed, and it is undeservedly heavily underutilised, hands down. I find myself using it nowadays rather sparingly and mostly in just one phrase (and its semantic derivatives): «all that twaddle […]».
- ghaff 2y agoI would say nonsense was quite common in the US. Otherwise agree (although I would get the meaning).
- inkyoto 2y agoIt is all pants to me (I was actually «translating» pants into Universal English).
- waldothedog 2y agoRubbish, nonsense, drivel, and claptrap all recognizable to me, a Yankee. Twaddle is a new one tho!
- mkl 2y agoAll of these are common in NZ ("twaddle" is a bit old-fashioned). I had no idea "nonsense" was supposedly regional, and four dictionaries I just checked make no mention of that (and include American sources of quotes).