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Wattle vs Wittle - What's the difference?

wattle | wittle |

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)
  • 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

    wittle

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (childish, nonstandard) Little.
  • * 2004 , Woody Leonhard, Windows XP all-in-one desk reference for dummies
  • Working with windows (that's "windows" with a wittle w)
  • * 2005 , Linda Darling-Hammond, John Bransford, Preparing teachers for a changing world
  • Give wittle Bear a wittle hug.
  • * 2006 , Sigrid Nunez, The last of her kind
  • ...in a moment of regrettable cuteness, forgetting that I would not always be a wittle -bitty baby...
  • * 2007 , Kristen Sauder, Trading Panic for Peace
  • With every step she repeated the same phrase, "I just need a wittle bit of help. I just need a wittle bit of help."

    Synonyms

    * ickle

    Verb

    (head)