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Twattle vs Tattle - What's the difference?

twattle | tattle |

As verbs the difference between twattle and tattle

is that twattle is (archaic) to talk in a digressive or long-winded way or twattle can be (archaic|transitive) to make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet while tattle is (pejorative) to report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.

As a noun tattle is

a tattletale.

twattle

English

Etymology 1

Compare tattle, twaddle.

Verb

(twattl)
  • (archaic) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.
  • (rfquotek, L'Estrange)

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (twattl)
  • (archaic) To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet.
  • (Grose)
    (Webster 1913)

    tattle

    English

    Verb

  • (pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
  • To chatter.
  • * 1599 ,
  • BEATRICE. He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling .
  • * Dryden
  • the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative

    Synonyms

    * blow the whistle, rat on, sing, snitch, squeal * gossip; see also

    Noun

    (-)
  • A tattletale.
  • Gossip; idle talk.