Stifling : noun A stifling is kind of stew.
Speech empty of meaning, empty idea (nonsense, nonsense).
Quote from the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Destouches dit Céline (1894-1961): “Tomorrow all native French meats will be chopped, sizzled, stuffed with“ small chips ”, small chips, fondues,“ stews ”, served hot on gas , on the battlefields of the five fronts. " in School of corpses - 1938.