twattling

Verb (1)

twattle (third-person singular simple present twattles, present participle twattling, simple past and past participle twattled)

1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.
   • After all, she objected, Do not Men run visiting from House to House, for no other purpose but to twattle, spending their time in idle and fruitless discourse?1671, Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Natures Pictures drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life, page 181

Verb (2)

twattle (third-person singular simple present twattles, present participle twattling, simple past and past participle twattled)

1. (archaic, transitive) To cosset; to pet or coddle.
   • Never fear her, I warrant you, she that will ask for a weapon is not desperate; get you gone in to her, and twattle her out of the sullens if you can; if not, I'le not long be absent.1675, John Dryden, The Mistaken Husband

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