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tittlebat

tittlebat noun: the three-spined stickleback.

Noun

tittlebat (plural tittlebats)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) The three-spined stickleback.
    • “Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 1”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC, page 1

Forms of tittlebat

pluraltittlebats

Questions about tittlebat

What does tittlebat mean?
Tittlebat means the three-spined stickleback.
What part of speech is tittlebat?
Tittlebat is a noun.
What is the plural of tittlebat?
The plural of tittlebat is tittlebats.

Words near tittlebat in the dictionary

  1. tittle-tattler
  2. tittle-tattlers
  3. tittle-tattles
  4. tittle-tattling
  5. tittle-tattlings
  6. tittlebat
  7. tittlebats
  8. tittled
  9. tittles
  10. tittling
  11. tittup

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