Lexicographical Neighbors of Tittling
Literary usage of Tittling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"... tittling. Topmost. ' The fiddling top' means the very highest point, the same
as Tip-top. The meaning may perhaps be, that a thing so placed must stand ..."
2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"He became very scon after this an awakened man ; and the tittling and tattling,
and the sneering and gossiping, all over Clapham, and the talk on 'Change, ..."
3. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"He became very soon after this an awakened man ; and the tittling and tattling,
and the sneering and gossiping, all over Olap- ham, and the talk on 'Change, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... the tittling wants, although it is not aye crying, Give, give, libe the horse
loch-leech." " Does the horse-leech really cry that, Mrs Jane? ..."
5. The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays: Which are Acted at the by Inchbald, Elizabeth Inchbald (1808)
"For indeed, sir, I am no busy body, nor do I love fending or proving—rand I assure
you, sir, I hate all tittling and tattling—and gossiping, ..."
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