絮叨

xù dao · HSK 7

to talk endlessly without getting to the point

🗣️🧶 絮 = cotton fluff + 叨 = chatter; words padded out like endless cotton stuffing

絮 is the cotton wadding stuffed into quilts; 叨 is to jabber. Put them together and the talk is all soft padding and no point, going on and on. The sound xu-dao even drags like a yawn that keeps unspooling.

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