Titling vs Twitling - What's the difference?
titling | twitling |
The hedge sparrow, or titlene.
* Holland
The meadow pipit.
(obsolete, in customhouses) stockfish
(Webster 1913)
A little twit.
*1984 , Martyn Hammersley, Peter Woods, Life in school :
*2007 , Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora :
As nouns the difference between titling and twitling
is that titling is the hedge sparrow, or titlene while twitling is a little twit.As a verb titling
is .titling
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(head)Etymology 2
Icelandic word for a tit sparrow. See .Noun
(en noun)- The titling , being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird.
Anagrams
* *twitling
English
Noun
(en noun)- "You twit, Long!" ... "You twitling', '''twitling'''! ' Twitling !"
- "Pipe down, twitlings ." Chains poured a splash of the quicksilver wine into Locke's glass and handed it back to him.