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Definition of Twattle
1. v. i. To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip.
2. v. t. To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.
3. n. Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.
Definition of Twattle
1. Verb. (archaic) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twattle
1. to twaddle [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES] - See also: twaddle
Medical Definition of Twattle
1. To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. Origin: Cf. Tattle, Twaddle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twattle
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Literary usage of Twattle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies: Pbviz., The by William Hone, William Teqq, Court of King's Bench, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Great Britain (1876)
"So likewise Old Bags is All-twattle, Derry Down Triangle All- ... and the Doctor
All-twattle. And yet they are not three ..."
2. The Three Trials of William Hone, for Publishing Three Parodies: Viz. The by William Hone, Great Britain Court of King's Bench (1818)
"As also they are not three incomprehensibles, nor three Mountebanks: but one
Mountebank, and one incomprehensible. So likewise Old Bags is All-twattle,-f- ..."
3. Chapters in the History of Popular Progress: Chiefly in Relation to the by James Routledge (1876)
""As also they are not three incomprehensibles, nor three Mountebanks: but one
Mountebank, and one incomprehensible. " So likewise Old Bags is All-twattle, ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1842)
"... idle talk; from twattle, idem. All that ever he did was not worth so much as the
... -twattle that he maketh. — HOLLAND. 24. ..."
5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"TWADDLE, to talk sillily, or tediously; also the man who does so ; also the talk
itself : modern form of twattle- "The devil take the ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"To twattle. — Twaddle. To prate, chatter, talk foolishly. ... There is little
doubt that twattle, twaddle, are formed in like manner. ..."
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