twattle /ˈtwɒtəl/noun 2verb 2forms 3 noun2 •(no longer used) Chatter; twaddle.It concedes too much to you Northern fellows; and all the old man said about magnanimity was mere twattle. — 1860 •(no longer used) A dwarf.She had telt him, indignant, 'I am not ten.' 'No? An uncomely twattle, are ye no?' 'A twattle?' she had said. 'A mimmerkin. A dwarf.' — 2016 verb2 •(no longer used) 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? — 1671 •(no longer used) 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. — 1675 formstwattled · twattling · twattles
