Synonyms of the word

piffle

• n. Nonsense, foolish talk.
• v. To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.
• v. To waste, to fritter away.
• v. (dated) To be squeamish or delicate.

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

balderdash

• n. senseless talk or writing; nonsense.
• n. (archaic) A worthless mixture, especially of liquors.
• v. (archaic) To mix or adulterate.

behave

• v. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
• v. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
• v. (intransitive) To act in a polite or proper way.

blab

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
• n. One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

blabber

• v. To blather; to talk foolishly or incoherently.
• v. To blab; to let out a secret.
• v. (Britain, obsolete) To stick out one's tongue.
• n. A person who blabs; a tattler; a telltale.

bunk

• n. One of a series of berths or beds placed in tiers.
• n. (nautical) A built-in bed on board ship, often erected in tiers one above the other.
• n. (military) A cot.
• n. (US) A wooden case or box, which serves for a seat in the daytime and for a bed at night.
• n. (US, dialect) A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers.
• v. To occupy a bunk.
• v. To provide a bunk.
• n. (slang) Bunkum; senseless talk, nonsense.
• adj. (slang) defective, broken, not functioning properly.
• v. (Britain) To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk…
• v. (dated) To expel from a school.

chatter

• n. Talk, especially meaningless or unimportant talk.
• n. The sound of talking.
• n. The sound made by a magpie.
• n. An intermittent noise, as from vibration.
• n. In national security, the degree of communication between suspect groups and individuals, used to gauge…
• v. (intransitive) To talk idly.
• v. (intransitive) Of teeth, machinery, etc, to make a noise by rapid collisions.
• v. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.
• n. one who chats.
• n. (Internet) a user of chat rooms.

clack

• n. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects colliding repetitively; a sound midway…
• n. Anything that causes a clacking noise, such as the clapper of a mill, or a clack valve.
• n. Clatter; prattle.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. (transitive) To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click.
• v. To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration.
• v. (Britain) To cut the sheep's mark off (wool), to make the wool weigh less and thus yield less duty.

do

• v. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
• v. (transitive) To perform; to execute.
• v. (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
• v. (intransitive, transitive) To suffice.
• v. (intransitive) To be reasonable or acceptable.
• v. (transitive) To have (as an effect).
• v. (intransitive) To fare; to succeed or fail.
• v. (transitive, chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
• v. To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
• v. To cook.
• v. (transitive) To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
• v. (transitive) To treat in a certain way.
• v. (transitive) To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order,…
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
• v. (transitive) (see also do time) To spend (time) in jail.
• v. (transitive) To impersonate or depict.
• v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
• v. (transitive, slang) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
• v. (informal) To punish for a misdemeanor.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with. (See also do it).
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• v. (transitive) To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To finish.
• v. (Britain, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for).
• v. (archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
• v. (stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
• v. (informal, transitive) To make or provide.
• v. (informal, transitive) To injure (one's own body part).
• v. (transitive) To take drugs.
• v. (idomatic, transitive, in the form be doing [somewhere]) to have a purpose or reason.
• n. (colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
• n. (informal) A hairdo.
• n. (colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument.
• n. Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts).
• n. (obsolete) A deed; an act.
• n. (archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
• n. (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
• adv. (rare) Abbreviation of ditto.

fiddle-faddle

• n. nonsense.

gabble

• v. To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning.
• v. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity.
• n. Confused or unintelligible speech.

gibber

• n. Gibberish, unintelligible speech.
• v. To jabber, talk rapidly and unintelligibly or incoherently.
• n. A boulder, a stone.
• n. A balky horse.

hokum

• n. Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate.

maunder

• v. To speak in a disorganized or desultory manner; to babble or prattle.
• v. To wander or walk aimlessly.
• n. (obsolete) A beggar.

meaninglessness

• n. The state of lacking meaning; the quality of being meaningless.
• n. Anything that is meaningless.

mouth

• n. (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
• n. The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
• n. An outlet, aperture or orifice.
• n. (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
• n. (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
• n. (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
• n. (obsolete) Cry; voice.
• n. (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
• n. (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
• v. (transitive) To speak; to utter.
• v. (transitive) To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
• v. (transitive) To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
• v. (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
• v. (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
• v. (obsolete) To make mouths at.

nonsense

• n. Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or seem to have no meaning.
• n. An untrue statement.
• n. Something foolish.
• n. (literature) A type of poetry that contains strange or surreal ideas, as, for example, that written by…
• n. (biology) A damaged DNA sequence whose products are not biologically active, that is, that does nothing.
• v. To make nonsense of.
• v. To attempt to dismiss as nonsense.
• v. (intransitive) To joke around, to waste time.
• adj. (biochemistry) Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become…
• adj. nonsensical.

nonsensicality

• n. (uncountable) The state or condition of being nonsensical.
• n. (countable) A nonsensical belief, remark, etc.

palaver

• n. (Africa) A village council meeting, a folkmoot.
• n. Talk, especially unnecessary talk, fuss.
• n. A meeting at which there is much talk; a debate, a moot.
• n. (informal) Disagreement.
• v. To discuss with much talk.

prate

• n. Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
• v. To talk much and to little purpose; to chatter; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

prattle

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To speak incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble.
• n. Silly, childish, talk; babble.

speak

• v. (intransitive) To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud.
• v. (intransitive) To have a conversation.
• v. (by extension) To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions.
• v. (intransitive) To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech.
• v. (transitive) To be able to communicate in a language.
• v. (transitive) To utter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate.
• v. (informal, transitive, sometimes humorous) To understand (as though it were a language).
• v. (intransitive) To produce a sound; to sound.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To address; to accost; to speak to.
• n. language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group.
• n. Speach, conversation.
• n. (dated) a low class bar, a speakeasy.

talk

• n. A conversation or discussion; usually serious, but informal.
• n. A lecture.
• n. (preceded by the; often qualified by a following of) A major topic of social discussion.
• n. (preceded by the) A customary conversation by parent(s) or guardian(s) with their (often teenaged) child…
• n. (uncountable, not preceded by an article) Empty boasting, promises or claims.
• n. Meeting to discuss a particular matter.
• v. (transitive) To communicate, usually by means of speech.
• v. (transitive, informal) To discuss.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To confess, especially implicating others.
• v. (intransitive) To criticize someone for something of which one is guilty oneself.
• v. (intransitive) To gossip; to create scandal.

tattle

• v. (intransitive, pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip…
• v. (intransitive) To chatter.
• n. A tattletale.
• n. Gossip; idle talk.

tittle-tattle

• n. petty, idle gossip.
• n. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
• v. to engage in such gossip.
• v. to spread gossip.

twaddle

• n. (uncountable) Empty or silly idle talk or writing; nonsense, rubbish.
• n. (countable) One who twaddles; a twaddler.
• v. To talk or write nonsense; to prattle.

utter

• adj. (now poetic, literary) Outer; furthest out, most remote.
• adj. (obsolete) Outward.
• adj. Absolute, unconditional, total, complete.
• v. (transitive) To say.
• v. (transitive) To use the voice.
• v. (transitive) To make speech sounds which may or may not have an actual language involved.
• v. (transitive) To make (a noise).
• v. (law, transitive) To put counterfeit money, etc., into circulation.
• adv. (obsolete) Further out; further away, outside.

verbalise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.

verbalize

• v. To speak or to use words to express.
• v. (grammar) To adapt a word of another part of speech as a verb.