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Trittle trattle

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle. 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. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of trittle trattle. alt-of
  3. 3
    Cheap, tawdry trinkets or nick-nacks; worthless small items one might buy at a market. slang

    "At the fair I had spent all my silver, buying of trittle-trattles at the lucky-booths and about the market-stalls."

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.

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