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betwattles

betwattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about betwattles

What is betwattles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Betwattles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of betwattle.

Words near betwattles in the dictionary

  1. betwaddled
  2. betwaddles
  3. betwaddling
  4. betwattle
  5. betwattled
  6. betwattles
  7. betwattling
  8. between
  9. between a rock and a hard place
  10. between decks
  11. between jobs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betwattles (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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