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Twaddler

One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.

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Communicator 76% connected

One who communicates.

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Gabble 74% connected

To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Gabble 74% connected

To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

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Bog noun · 78% connection

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

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Calf noun · 78% connection

An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

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Charlatan noun · 78% connection

One who prates much in his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

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Deaf adjective · 78% connection

Decayed; tasteless; dead; as, a deaf nut; deaf corn.

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Decayed adjective · 78% connection

Fallen, as to physical or social condition; affected with decay; rotten; as, decayed vegetation or vegetables; a decayed fortune or ge…

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Dental caries noun · 78% connection

soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth

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Dilapidate verb · 78% connection

To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to become decayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate.

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Dilapidated adjective · 78% connection

Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.

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Dote verb · 78% connection

To be weak-minded, silly, or idiotic; to have the intellect impaired, especially by age, so that the mind wanders or wavers; to drivel.

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Dottard noun · 78% connection

An old, decayed tree.

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Fatuous adjective · 78% connection

Feeble in mind; weak; silly; stupid; foolish; fatuitous.

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Fond superl. · 78% connection

Foolish; silly; simple; weak.

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Foolish adjective · 78% connection

Marked with, or exhibiting, folly; void of understanding; weak in intellect; without judgment or discretion; silly; unwise.

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Half-witted adjective · 78% connection

Weak in intellect; silly.

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Jacket crown noun · 78% connection

(dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a c…

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Maudlin adjective · 78% connection

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.

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Mend verb · 78% connection

To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to p…

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Mind verb · 78% connection

The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opin…

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