twattle
/ˈtwɒtəl/
Etymology
Compare tattle, twaddle.
twattle means chatter; twaddle. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
noun
- Chatter; twaddle.“Continue, if you choose, your twattle against Homœopathy; distort it, misinterpret it, calumniate and deride its author; the unprejudiced legions will soon be able to decide on which side is the truth.”
- A dwarf.“PIGMEO, a pigmey, a kinde of little man like a dwarfe, a dandiprat, a twattle, or an elfe. Some thinke that they be but a kind of spirits ingendred of the corruption of the earth, even as the Scarab is bread of horses doung.”
verb
- To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.“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?”
- To cosset; to pet or coddle.“Never fear her, I warrant you, she that will ask for a weapon is not desperate; get you gone in to her, and twattle her out of the sullens if you can; if not, I'le not long be absent.”