Pretentious or silly talk or writing.

synonyms: baloney, bilgewater, boloney, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh.

Roget 517: meaninglessness, unmeaningness etc. adj.^†; scrabble.    empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;" sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.   " nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin^†, platitude, niaiserie^†; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae [Lat.]; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; poppy-cock [U.S.]; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity etc. 497; vagueness etc. (unintelligibility) 519.    [routine or reflexive statements without substantive thought, esp. legal] boilerplate, clich??.    ... show more

Roget 584: loquacity, loquaciousness; talkativeness etc. adj.; garrulity; multiloquence^†, much speaking.    jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, twattle, rattle; caquet^†, caquetterie [Fr.]; blabber, bavardage^†, bibble-babble^†, gibble-gabble^†; small talk etc. (converse) 588.    fluency, flippancy, volubility, flowing, tongue; flow of words; flux de bouche [Fr.], flux de mots [Fr.]; copia verborum [Lat.], cacoethes loquendi [Lat.]; furor loquendi [Lat.]; verbosity etc. (diffuseness) 573; gift of the gab etc. (eloquence) 582.    talker; chatterer, chatterbox; babbler etc. v.; rattle; ranter; sermonizer, proser^†, driveler; blatherskite [U.S.]; gossip etc. (converse) 588; magpie, jay, parrot, poll, Babel; moulin a paroles [Fr.].    ... show more

Roget 497: absurdity, absurdness etc. adj.; imbecility etc. 499; alogy^†, nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy^†, stultiloquence^†; nugacity^†.    blunder, muddle, bull; Irishism^†, Hibernicism^†; slipslop^†; anticlimax, bathos; sophism etc. 477.    farce, galimathias^†, amphigouri^†, rhapsody; farrago etc. (disorder) 59; betise [Fr.]; extravagance, romance; sciamachy^†.    sell, pun, verbal quibble, macaronic^†.    jargon, fustian, twaddle, gibberish etc. (no meaning) 517; exaggeration etc. 549; moonshine, stuff; mare's nest, quibble, self-delusion.    vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade [Fr.], escapade.    ... show more

Dutch: gebrabbel, kolder, nonsens, onzin, ruimwater, zever
Polish: humbug

Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

synonyms: blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, tittle-tattle ... show more.

Roget 517: mean nothing; be unmeaning etc. adj.; twaddle, quibble, scrabble.   

Roget 584: be loquacious etc. adj.; talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter^†, blether^†; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, twattle; babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate etc. (speak at length) 573; gossip etc. (converse) 588; din in the ears etc. (repeat) 104; talk at random, talk nonsense etc. 497; be hoarse with talking.    ... show more

Dutch: ratelen, fantaseren