Wattle vs Wittle - What's the difference?
wattle | wittle |
A construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.
* Tennyson
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.
To construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles.
English terms with homophones
(childish, nonstandard) Little.
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As verbs the difference between wattle and wittle
is that wattle is to construct a wattle, or make a construction of wattles while wittle is misspelling of lang=en.As a noun wattle
is a construction of branches and twigs woven together to form a wall, barrier, fence, or roof.As an adjective wittle is
little.wattle
English
Noun
(en noun)- And there he built with wattles from the marsh / A little lonely church in days of yore.
Derived terms
* wattle and daubCoordinate terms
* (skin on head of birds) caruncle, comb, cockscomb, crest, snoodVerb
(wattl)wittle
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)
- Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.
- ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle -bitty baby...
- With every step she repeated the same phrase, "I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help."