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betwattling

betwattling is the present participle and gerund 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 betwattling

What is betwattling the present participle and gerund of?
Betwattling is the present participle and gerund of betwattle.

Words near betwattling in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betwattling (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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