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▪ I. † trattle, n.1 Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Also 6 (pl.) tratlis, trattillis, tratilis, trattils, tratelles.
[n. of action from trattle v.: cf. tattle, prattle as ns.]
Idle tales or talk; gossip; chatter.
1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 83 Off tratlis and tragedeis the text of all talk is. a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. iii, But leave this trattle, and tell me what news. 1597Jas. I Demonol. ii. iv, Like old womens trattles about the fire.
▪ II. trattle, trottle, n.2 local.|ˈtræt(ə)l|, |ˈtrɒt(ə)l|
Also 6–7 tret(t)le, 6, 9 truttle.
[Origin obscure: usually held to be related to treddle.]
pl. The rounded droppings of sheep, hares, rabbits, etc.
1547Boorde Brev. Health cxii. 42 b, If the egestion..doth loke like shepes tretles, there is abundance of coler adusted. 1598Florio, Tronzoli, the dung or truttles of any cattle, as of sheepe. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. xii. 217 Break three or fower trottles of a goate or sheepe. 1639T. de la Grey Compl. Horsem. 62 His doung..hee putteth forth with round and hard trattles. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Trattles,..the small pellets of the dung of sheep, hares, rabbits, &c. 1865Cockayne in Sax. Leechd. II. Gloss. s.v. Tyrdelu, Called sheeps tredles in Somerset, trattles in Suffolk. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Trottles, the dung of sheep, lambs, or rabbits. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss., Treddles, Truddles, Truttles.
▪ III. † ˈtrattle, v. Chiefly Sc. Obs.
Forms: 5 tratyll, -el, -ill, tratle, 6 trattil, -ill, -yll, 6, 8 trattle; also pres. pple. 5 tratlyng, 5–6 Sc. tratland, pres. pple. and gerund 6–7 tratling; pa. tense 6 Sc. tratlit.
[app. related in some way to tattle, but actually found earlier, and not in the sense ‘stammer’, in which tattle was first used. Probably echoic.]
intr. and trans. To talk idly; to chatter, gossip.
a1400[see trattling vbl. n.]. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. x. 3454 Ye rawe [= rave], & tratelys [v.r. tratlys] all foly. 1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 313 Sen thow on me thus, lymmer, leis and trattillis. a1555Bp. Gardiner in Foxe A. & M. (1563) 751 Ouer grosse opinions, to enter into your learned head, whatsoeuer the vnlearned woulde trattle. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 107 He..vsed to trattle and talke more than ynough. a1592Greene Jas. IV Induct., Many circumstances too long to trattle on now. a1800Earl Richard v. in Child Ballads (1885) iii. 152/1 Better..Than thou canst keep thy clattering toung, That trattles in thy head. |