twattle
English
Etymology 1
Verb
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- (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.
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Derived terms
Noun
twattle
- (archaic) Chatter; twaddle.
Etymology 2
Verb
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- (archaic, transitive) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.
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Etymology 3
Noun
twattle (plural twattles)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “twattle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)