twattle

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Shakespeare), ‘twittle-twattle’, ‘kim-kam’ (both in Holland), ‘hab-nab’

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  1. To chatter unmeaningly or foolishly; jabber; gabble; tattle; twaddle. Prattlers, which would go from house to house, twattling, and babbling out frothy speech that was good for nothing. W. Whateley, Redemption of Time (1634), p. 15. (Latham.) Idle persons, that will spend whole hours together in twattling and talking idly, and of other men's matters. Baxter, Self-Denial, xxvii.
  2. To utter incoherently or foolishly; repeat idly; tattle. As readye forgde fittons as true tales vaynelye toe twattle. Stanihurst, Æneid, iv. (ed. Arber, p. 101).
  3. To make much of; fondle; pat, as a horse, cow, dog, etc. Grose. [Provincial English]
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  • Sir Edward, who resembles not Horry in his love for the twittle-twattle of the town, is a passable performer on the bass viol, and a hermit—the Hermit of Pall Mall. —  The Ladies
  • Here's a current sampling of the sort of twattle that will fuel his next ten books: —  Gawker
  • We have good reason to believe that one great cause of this is, that his name has often been confounded with that of another and altogether different species of NEAL, whose infinite twattle--infinite alike in degree and quantity--has prejudiced the public mind against any thing that may seem to come in 'questionable shape' from a questionable source. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2
  • Shakespeare), ‘twittle-twattle’, ‘kim-kam’ (both in Holland), ‘hab-nab’ —  English Past and Present
  • While my mother would twattle me (1) gently an 'cry, —  Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
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  1. Freq. of twat, from Icelandic thwætta, talk, gabble, = Norwegian twætta = Danish twætte, jabber, talk nonsense; perhaps connected with Icelandic thwætti in & umacr;rthwætti, slops from wash, refuse (Swedish tvätta = Danish tvætte, wash), from thwā = Swedish två = Danish toe, wash: see towel.
  2. from twattle, v.
 

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