English Explanatory Dictionary

trittle trattle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle.
  2. Cheap, tawdry trinkets or nick-nacks; worthless small items one might buy at a market.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of trittle trattle.

Word forms

trittle trattle trittle trattles

Etymology

A Scots and dialectal English term stemming from the verb trattle (to prattle/chatter) and related to "trinkum-trankum". An earlier version, trittlyl-trattyll, is recorded as early as 1529.

Synonyms

drivel trinkum-trankum
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