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TITTLEBAT definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
tittlebat in British English (ˈtɪtəlˌbæt ) noun. children's slang. a child's name for the stickleback fish .
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tittlebat, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
A stickleback (family Gasterosteidae). 1781 In the hot Baths..there are great numbers of little fishes, about the size of what they call Tittlebats in England.
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TITTLEBAT Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of TITTLEBAT is stickleback.
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tittlebat
tittlebat (ˈtɪt(ə)lbæt) Also -back. A variant of stickleback, of childish origin. Hence tittleˈbatian a. nonce-wd., pertaining to tittlebats.1820 Keats & Hunt K.'s Wks. (1889) III. 34 They..follow the fish into cool corners, and say millions of ‘My eyes!’ at ‘tittle-bats’. 1837 Dickens Pickw. i, The...
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tittlebat - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
tittlebat (plural tittlebats). (UK, dialect, archaic) The three-spined stickleback. 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 1”, ...
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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31/October 1887/The Theory of ...
A true theory of tittlebats would have to account not only for the peculiarities of bony structure which have secured the stickleback these his many names.
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tiddler
▪ I. ˈtiddler1 [? Related to tittlebat and tiddly ‘little’.] Nursery name for a stickleback. Also applied to other small fish, as a minnow. Hence, a child; any small person or thing. So ˈtiddling vbl. n., fishing for ‘tiddlers’.1885 B. E. Martin in Harper's Mag. May 866/1 Them's tiddlers, they is. 1...
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Tittlebat. World English Historical Dictionary - WEHD.com
Tittlebat. Also -back. A variant of STICKLEBACK, of childish origin. Hence Tittlebatian a. nonce-wd., pertaining to tittlebats. 1. 1820. Keats & Hunt, K.'s Wks.
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definition of tittlebat by The Free Dictionary
tittlebat (ˈtɪtəlˌbæt) n (Animals) children's slang a child's name for the stickleback fish Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition ...
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tittlebat - definition and meaning - Wordnik
noun (Zoöl.), Prov. Eng. The three-spined stickleback. from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun UK, dialect ...
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"TITTLEBAT": Small freshwater fish resembling stickleback - OneLook
Usually means: Small freshwater fish resembling stickleback. Definitions Related words Mentions History. We found 12 dictionaries that define the word tittlebat ...
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Tittlebat Definition, Meaning & Usage | FineDictionary.com
(Zoöl) The three-spined stickleback. Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia #. (n) tittlebat. Same as stickleback. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary #. (n) ...
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Ten Thousand a-Year
The story chronicles events in the life of its iconic protagonist Tittlebat Titmouse and offers in-depth detail of English common law of the time.
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stickleback
stickleback (ˈstɪk(ə)lbæk) Forms: 5 stykylbak, 6 sticklebanke, -banck, 6–7 stickle bag(ge, 7 stit(t)le bag(ge, 8 stittle-back, 7–9 stickle-back, 7– stickleback. [f. OE. sticel prick, sting + back n.1 Cf. the synonymous banstickle, stanstickle, stickling, tittlebat, prickleback, -bag (N. Irel. sprick...
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Three-spined stickleback
most of the species range, and is the subspecies most strictly termed the three-spined stickleback; its common name in Britain is the tiddler, although "tittlebat
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