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betwaddle

betwaddle is the alternative spelling of betwattle.

Meaning of betwattle

Verb

betwattle (third-person singular simple present betwattles, present participle betwattling, simple past and past participle betwattled)

  1. (West-Country, archaic, transitive) To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind.
    • She would not let a man betwattle her with kisses... again.1996, Jo Ann Ferguson, Miss Charity's Case (Zebra Regency Romance), →ISBN
  2. (West-Country, archaic, intransitive) To be in a distressed state of mind.

Forms of betwaddle

third-person singular presentbetwaddles
present participlebetwaddling
past participlebetwaddled
pastbetwaddled

Questions about betwaddle

What is betwaddle the alternative spelling of?
Betwaddle is the alternative spelling of betwattle.

Words near betwaddle in the dictionary

  1. beturtlenecked
  2. betusked
  3. betuxed
  4. betuxedoed
  5. betw.
  6. betwaddle
  7. betwaddled
  8. betwaddles
  9. betwaddling
  10. betwattle
  11. betwattled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betwaddle (page history and authors); betwattle (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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