Obs. exc. dial. [f. prec. + -ER1.] One who ‘twattles’; a chatterer, babbler, tattler.
1577. Stanyhurst, Descr. Irel., vi. in Holinshed, I. 22/1. Let vs … leaue lying for varlettes,… chatting for twatlers.
1679. J. Smith, Narr. Pop. Plot, 21. Aspersed by … publick Scriblers, as well as by Coffee-house Twatlers.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., 1 Tim. v. 14, 15. To speak evil of the Church, as if it were a Society of idle twatlers.
1818. Cobbett, Pol. Reg., XXXIII. 515. As to the resources of the nation, what do these twatlers mean?
