Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Chatter; gabble; tattle; twaddle. Compare
twittle-twattle . - noun A diminutive person; a dwarf.
- Twattling; trifling; petty.
- To chatter unmeaningly or foolishly; jabber; gabble; tattle; twaddle.
- To utter incoherently or foolishly; repeat idly; tattle.
- To make much of; fondle; pat, as a horse, cow, dog, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle.
- transitive verb Prov. Eng. To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.
- noun Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic To
talk in adigressive orlong-winded way.
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Examples
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The only thing you prove is that you are naive, with your self serving twattle, and your attempts at 'appeals to authority'.
It's Still American Hope Vs. Fear, Even in David Brooks' Worst Case Scenario 2009
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And you Twittle and twattle shifting moral concerns as your little outrage charade is pwned for what it is – a laughable concoction of mock and laughable assertions which do not even begin to stand up to factual scrutiny.
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Then, having presented to him the leaves of the sycamore, they show him the short and twattle verses that were written in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Then, having presented to him the leaves of the sycamore, they show him the short and twattle verses that were written in them.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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'Oppodeldoc' (whoever he is) has the audacity to demand of us, for his twattle, a 'speedy insertion and prompt pay.'
Expressions of the Age Fenton, James 2001
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Twittle-twattle, which in his day combined the senses now expressed by twaddle and tittle-tattle, is a 'vile word.'
On Dictionaries 1969
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Much was idle twattle and the giddiness of a woman that will be talking.
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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
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-- We care not for one of your modern libraries, with its spruce shelves, filled with the sickly effusions of romantic triflers -- the solemn, philosophical nonsense of Arthur, the dandified affectation of Willis, and the clever but wearisome twittle-twattle of Dickens -- once great in himself, now living on the fading reputation of past greatness; we care not to enter
City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson
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How much brainless twattle do they contain, amid a few grains of wit and humor.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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