v. Obs. [app. altered from TITTLE v.1; cf. TWITTLE-TWATTLE.] trans. To utter idly, chatter, babble: = TITTLE v.1
1577. Stanyhurst, Descr. Irel., Ep. to Sir H. Sidney, in Holinshed, Chron. (1587), II. 6. His hystorie … twitled more tales out of schoole, and drowned weightyer matters in silence, then the Autor vpon better view … woulde haue permitted. Ibid., vi. 34/2. Such rumors noised, such tales bruted, such fables twitled, such vntrue reports twatled.
