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Definition: TWATTLE |
TWATTLEIntransitive verb1. To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. Noun1. Act of prating; idle talk; twaddle. Transitive verb1. To make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet. |
Date "TWATTLE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loquacity | Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking. |
Jaw; gabble; jabber, chatter; prate, prattle, cackle, clack; twaddle, rattle; caquet, caquetterie; blabber, bavardage, bibble-babble, gibble-gabble; small talk; (converse). | |
Unmeaningness | Nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; jargon, jabber, mere words, hocus-pocus, fustian, rant, bombast, balderdash, palaver, flummery, verbiage, babble, baverdage, baragouin, platitude, niaiserie; inanity; flap-doodle; rigmarole, rodomontade; truism; nugae canorae; twaddle, twattle, fudge, trash, garbage, humbug; stuff, stuff and nonsense; bosh, rubbish, moonshine, wish-wash, fiddle-faddle; absurdity; vagueness; (unintelligibility). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: TWATTLE |
| Etymologies containing "TWATTLE": Twittle-twattle. (references) |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "TWATTLE": Twittle-twattle. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "TWATTLE": twattled, twattles. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-l-t-t-t-w" | |
-1 letter: tattle, wattle. | |
-2 letters: latte. | |
-3 letters: late, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela, twae, wale, watt, weal, welt. | |
-4 letters: ale, alt, ate, att, awe, awl, eat, eta, lat, law, lea, let, tae, tat, taw, tea, tel, tet, tew, twa, wae, wat, wet. | |
-5 letters: ae, al, at, aw, el, et, la, ta, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-l-t-t-t-w" | |
+1 letter: twattled, twattles. | |
+4 letters: wettability. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 57 41 54 54 4C 45 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .--. .- - - .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01010111 01000001 01010100 01010100 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T W A T T L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0057 0041 0054 0054 004C 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)54573554544639 |
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