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Definition of Twattles
1. twattle [v] - See also: twattle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twattles
| twanky twas twasome twasomes tway twayblade twayblades tways twazzock twazzocks | twdt tweag tweaging |
Literary usage of Twattles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1850)
"RUST, and there 's DR.STUNNER, and there 's STUNNER, RUST, and STUNNER, and there
's DR. TYKE, and TYKE and twattles, and DR. ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"The lies, twattles, and contrivances about this affair are innumerable. I should
pity the poor girl, if I saw she pitied herself. The Duke of Kingston is in ..."
3. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly, Richard Warwick Bond (1902)
"... twattles learned in Alehouses, and at the Theater of Lanam and his fellowes ';
and G verso ' All my ..."
4. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"The lies, twattles, and contrivances about this affair, are innumerable. I should
pity the poor girl, if I saw she pitied herself. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... idiomatic English, is never dull in his didactics, never twattles, is learned
without pedantry, and although the topics treated are so diverse, ..."
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