Word Meanings - TWATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To prate; to talk much and idly; to gabble; to chatter; to twaddle; as, a twattling gossip. L'Estrange.

Related words: (words related to TWATTLE)

• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• PRATER
  One who prates. Shak.
• GOSSIPRY
  1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
• CHATTERATION
  The act or habit of chattering.
• CHATTER
  Etym: 1. To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct. The jaw makes answer, as the magpie chatters. Wordsworth. 2. To talk idly, carelessly, or with undue rapidity; to jabber; to prate. To tame a shrew,
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• TWADDLE
  To talk a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle. Stanyhurst.
• GOSSIPY
  Full of, or given to, gossip.
• CHATTERING
  The act or habit of talking idly or rapidly, or of making inarticulate sounds; the sounds so made; noise made by the collision of the teeth; chatter.
• GABBLER
  One who gabbles; a prater.
• PRATE
  To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble. To prate and talk for life and honor. Shak. And make a fool presume to prate of love. Dryden.
• GABBLE
  Etym: 1. To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. Shak. 2. To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.
• GOSSIPER
  One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.
• CHATTERER
  A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird. (more info)
• PRATEFUL
  Talkative. W. Taylor.
• GOSSIPREDE
  The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
• ESTRANGEMENT
  The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.
• TWADDLER
  One who prates in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed.
• GOSSIP
  baptism, a relation by a religious obligation, AS. godsibb, fr. god + sib alliance, relation; akin to G. sippe, Goth. sibja, and also to 1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place
• CONSTUPRATE
  To ravish; to debauch. Burton.
• STUPRATE
  To ravish; to debauch. Heywood.
• TWITTLE-TWATTLE
  Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.
• SUPRATEMPORAL
  Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.