Twattle
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtwɒtəl/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Twattle is a verb meaning (archaic, ambitransitive) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.
Meaning
(archaic, ambitransitive) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.
More Meanings
- (archaic) Chatter; twaddle.
- (archaic, transitive) To cosset; to pet or coddle.
- (archaic) A dwarf.
Example Sentences
The lies, twattles, and contrivances about this affair, are innumerable.
It concedes too much to you Northern fellows; and all the old man said about magnanimity was mere twattle.
Tis very well, Mistress, says he, and are you not a fine Gossiping Lady, do you think, to twattle your Husband thus out of his Life and Fortune?
After all, she objected, Do not Men run visiting from House to House, for no other purpose but to twattle, spending their time in idle and fruitless discourse?
Word Forms
- twattles
- twattling
- twattled
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include twaddle, tattle, whiffle, pittle-pattle, blather, prattle.
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