trittle trattle

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle. dialectal,obsolete,slang
    — Your wife is now well at Penshurst; the small-pox hath but kissed her face. Post-script.—I pray leave your “trittle trattle trollilollies and come to us.”
  2. Cheap, tawdry trinkets or nick-nacks; worthless small items one might buy at a market. dialectal,obsolete,slang
    — At the fair I had spent all my silver, buying of trittle-trattles at the lucky-booths and about the market-stalls.

词形变化

trittle trattles plural

词源

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.
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