† ˈtwittle, v. Obs.
[app. altered from tittle v.1; cf. twittle-twattle.]
trans. To utter idly, chatter, babble: = tittle v.1
| 1577 Stanyhurst Descr. Irel. Ep. to Sir H. Sidney, in Holinshed Chron. (1587) II. 6 His hystorie..twitled more tales out of schoole, and drowned weightyer matters in silence, then the Autor vpon better view..woulde haue permitted. Ibid. vi. 34/2 Such rumors noised, such tales bruted, such fables twitled, such vntrue reports twatled. |