单词 | retattle |
释义 | retattlev. humorous. rare. transitive. To tattle about again; to tell again by tattling.With punning allusion to the name of the various periodical publications entitled ‘The Tatler’. ΚΠ 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 229. ⁋3 To enumerate some of these my doughty Antagonists, I was threatened to be answered Weekly Tit for Tat: I was undermined by the Whisperer, haunted by Tom Brown's Ghost, scolded at by a Female Tatler... I have been annotated, retattled, examined, and condoled. 2003 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 8 Apr. d10 After assuring TIC that the photo of Prince William was real and not an April Fool's joke, Tatler called over the weekend..to re-tattle its tale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1710 |
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