trittle trattle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Cheap, tawdry trinkets or nick-nacks; worthless small items one might buy at a market.
Obsolete; Slang
noun
Alternative letter-case form of trittle trattle.
Example Sentences
- "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.”"
- "“Now trittle trattle trollylow,” Quoth the third man, “thou does but mow!”"
- "Going through Fife some five weeks afterwards, Dunmure called at Hay’s house, and “craved back the paper with great earnestness;” whereupon Hay said, “Trittle-trattle, ye need not be so curious ...”"
- "The admonitions of her visitor “she scorned in a headful laughter,” and called his ghostly counsel “Trittle Trattle.”"
- "Lady Jean was unwilling to cleave to her religion at first throwing the reverend’s proffered bible against the wall and dismissing his preaching as ‘trittle trattle’."
- "At the fair I had spent all my silver, buying of trittle-trattles at the lucky-booths and about the market-stalls."
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Inflected Forms
trittle trattles (plural)