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Twattle vs Wattle - What's the difference?

twattle | wattle |

As verbs the difference between twattle and wattle

is that twattle is to talk in a digressive or long-winded way while wattle is to construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.

As a noun wattle is

a construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.

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)

    wattle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
  • * Tennyson
  • And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
  • A single twig or rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.
  • A wrinkled fold of skin, sometimes brightly coloured, hanging from the neck of birds (such as chicken and turkey) and some lizards.
  • A barbel of a fish.
  • A decorative fleshy appendage on the neck of a goat.
  • Loose hanging skin in the neck of a person.
  • Any of several Australian trees and shrubs of the genus Acacia , or their bark, used in tanning.
  • Derived terms

    * wattle and daub

    Coordinate terms

    * (skin on head of birds) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snood

    Verb

    (wattl)
  • To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
  • English terms with homophones