01v. i. & t.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
1.
To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.
02n.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
1.
Silly talk; gabble; fustian.
“I have put in this chapter on fighting . . . because of the cant and twaddle that's talked of boxing and fighting with fists now-a-days.”
— T. Hughes.