twittle-twattle

English

Etymology

See twattle.

Noun

twittle-twattle (plural twittle-twattles)

1. (archaic) tattle; gabble
   • c. 1702, Roger L'Estrange, The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo

     The Gossips bawdy twittle twattle,
     The Nurse and Midwife's prittle prattles
     That must be very Welcome made

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “twittle-twattle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)