Trittle trattle

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.