单词 | tittler |
释义 | tittlern.1 rare (regional or colloquial) after Middle English. A person who spreads rumours or gossip, esp. quietly and secretly; a tattler, a telltale. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer rounderOE blabc1374 tale-teller1377 clatterer1388 tittlerc1400 talebearer1478 whisterer1519 whisperer1547 telltale1548 tattler1549 clatterfart1552 tale-carrier1552 babbler?1555 gossip1566 gossiper1568 carry-tale1577 mumble-news1598 twitter1598 buzzer1604 blob-talea1670 gadabout1757 tell-pie1771 circulator1792 clype1825 windjammer1880 tattle-tale1889 panta1908 clatfarta1930 the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting specific animals > [noun] > fox > chasing a fox tittlerc1400 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. B.15.17) (1975) B. xx. l. 299 Conscience..made pees porter to pynne þe yates Of alle taletelleris and titeleris [c1400 Laud tyterers; ?c1425 Calig. tyteres; a1450 Cambr. Dd.1.17 tutelers] in ydel. 1463 T. Playter in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 291 Prevy titlers and flaterers. c1475 (c1399) Mum & Sothsegger (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) iv. l. 57 (MED) Somme were tituleris and to þe kyng wente, And formed him of foos þat good frendis weren. a1505 R. Henryson Against Hasty Credence 21 in Poems (1981) 164 The tittillaris [v.r. tutelar] so in his heir can [= gan] roun. 1849 T. Lewin Minotaur! ii. 48 In a colony or state, where milksops, Secret talkers, tittlers, tattlers, gossips, Whisper. a1895 E. Smith MS Coll. Warwicks. Words in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 169/1 Tittler, a babbler; a tell-tale. 1981 Meanjin 40 518 Oh no, not his sisters... Tittlers and tattlers, the three of them. And first home with the news that he'd said 'bum' and the nuns had found out and announced it at assembly before the whole school. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † tittlern.2 Obsolete. rare. In a stocking-frame or knitting machine: each of the implements used to transfer the loops of thread from one needle to another; = tickler n.1 2d. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > knitting > other equipment tittler1831 tickler1839 1831 G. Henson Civil Hist. Framework-knitters v. 277 On the lead bar of the rib machine was placed, instead of needles, small instruments called ticklers, or tittlers, having two grooves cut at the end, one at top and the other at the bottom, to fit the head of the frame needles. 1845 Rep. Commissioner Condition Frame-work Knitters 22/1 in Parl. Papers XV. 1 A carved roller lifting up the tittlers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019). < |
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