twattle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Chatter; twaddle. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  2. A dwarf. archaic
    — 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.
动词 v.
  1. To talk in a digressive or long-winded way. ambitransitive,archaic
    — 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?
  2. To cosset; to pet or coddle. archaic,transitive
    — 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.

词形变化

twattles present,singular,third-person twattling participle,present twattled participle,past twattled past twattles plural twattles present,singular,third-person twattling participle,present twattled participle,past twattled past twattles plural

词源

词源 1
Compare tattle, twaddle.
词源 2
Unknown.
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