empty+talk
111fustian — I adjective bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, gausape, grandiloquent, grandiose, high flown, high sounding, inflated, mouthy, orotund, pompous, pretentious, ranting, swollen, tumid, turgid II noun affectation, altiloquence, bombast, bombastic… …
112Jive — 1. pretentious, empty talk; 2. type of American Negro and jazz slang; 3. tease; joke with: Are you jiving me? ; 4. go or fit together; make sense: It just doesn t jive …
113léasung — 1. f ( e/ a) leasing, lying, false witness, deceit, hypocrisy, artifice; a lie; empty talk, frivolity, laxity; 2. f ( e/ a) indemnity? …
114jive — Australian Slang 1. pretentious, empty talk; 2. type of American Negro and jazz slang; 3. tease; joke with: Are you jiving me? ; 4. go or fit together; make sense: It just doesn t jive …
115flatulence — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. windiness, belching, eructation, gassiness, gas; conceit, pompousness. See ostentation, vapor. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. pomposity, bombast, empty talk, boasting, twaddle, babble, idle words, mere words …
116rhetoric — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. oratory, eloquence, elocution, declamation, floridity. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Speech] Syn. composition, discourse, oratory, oration; see eloquence 1 , speech 3 . 2. [Grandiloquence] Syn.… …
117blah — blah1 S2 [bla:] n [Date: 1900 2000; Origin: From the sound of empty talk] 1.) blah, blah, blah spoken used when you do not need to complete what you are saying because it is boring or because the person you are talking to already knows it ▪ You… …
118twaddle — twad|dle [ˈtwɔdl US ˈtwa:dl] n [U] [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: Probably from twattle empty talk (17 19 centuries)] informal something that someone has said or written that you think is stupid = ↑nonsense ▪ I don t believe in all that twaddle about… …
119flummery — 1620s, a type of coagulated food, from Welsh llymru sour oatmeal jelly boiled with the husks, of uncertain origin. Figurative use, of flattery, empty talk, is from 1740s …
120guff — empty talk, nonsense, 1888, from earlier sense of puff of air (1825), of imitative origin …