twatterlightt

Same as twitter light. What mak'st thou here this twatterlight? I think thou 'rt in a dream. Wily Beguiled (Hawkins, Eng. Dr., III. 331). twattle (twot'l), v .; pret. and pp. twattled , ppr. twattling. [Freq. of * twat , thwætta , talk, gabble, = Norw.twætta = Dan. tvætte , jabber, talk nonsense; perhaps connected with Icel. thwætti in ürthwætti , slops from wash, refuse (Sw. tvätta = Dan. tvætte , wash), thwa = Sw. tvd = Dan. toe , wash: see to well .] I. in trans . To chatter unmeaningly or foolishly; jabber; gabble; tattle; twaddle. Prattlers, which would go from house to house, twattling , and babbling out frothy speech that was good for nothing. W. Whateley, Redemption of Time (1634), p. 15. ( Latham .) Idle persons, that will spend whole hours together in twattling and talking idly, and of other men's matters. Baxter , Self-Denial, xxvii. II. trans. 1. To utter incoherently or foolishly; repeat idly; tattle. As read ye forgde fittons as true tales vaynelye toe twattle. Stan i hurst, Æneid, iv. (ed. Arber, p. 101). 2. To make much of; fondle; pat, as a horse, cow, dog, etc. Grose. [Prov. Eng.]