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▪ I. † ˈtrattling, vbl. n. Obs. [f. trattle v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb trattle; idle talking or chattering; gossiping.
a1400Cursor M. 27824 (Cott. Galba) Couatyse es ane euil syn... Of þis cumes tratilling of tresoune. c1460How Gd. Wife taught Daughter 17 (MS. St. John's, Camb.) Nocht oyss [= use] of tratlyng in the toune. 1570Satir. Poems Ref. xxiii. 115 Thocht Lethingtoun with tratling he do trane thame. 1603Proph. of Waldhaue (Bann. Cl.) 34 This taile that I tell you,..It is a tratling but trueth, the suth the to say. ▪ II. † ˈtrattling, ppl. a. Obs. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That ‘trattles’; chattering, tattling, gossiping.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xviii. 39 Thair tratling tungis that all furth temiss. 1559J. Aylmer Harborowe P j b, The tratling Scot shal knocke out your chestes botoms. a1585Polwart Flyting w. Montgomerie 129 Ȝet, tratling truiker, truth to tell [etc.]. |