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A Scots and dialectal English term stemming from the verb trattle (to prattle/chatter) and related to "trinkum-trankum". An earlier version, trittlyl-trattyll, is recorded as early as 1529.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
trittle trattle
Today it means: Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle. Full definition →