英和和英

twitter on about trifles

foolery―tomfoolery

fooleries―tomfooleries

a trump―a trump-card

lucifer-matches―vestas

a bugle note―a trumpet call―tantara

a pageant―pageantry

test-paper―litmus-paper

gimcracks―gewgaws―trumperies

finery―fal-lalery

a fixture―fittings

flowery language―flourishes

a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels

stenography―shorthand

the Pentecost―Whitsunday

a titter―to titter

pier dues―pierage

the act of having a friendly conversation

of the way a person speaks, being very fast

to babble―gabble―chatter―rattle

to babble―gabble―chatter―jabber―rattle―twaddle

to compare notes

to be persistent in word and deed

to act and speak forwardly

to gibber―jabber

to chatter glibly

to talk glibly

to begin to chat

to chatter―prattle―twaddle

the act of speaking fluently