Meanings
verbpittle-pattle (third-person singular simple present pittle-pattles, present participle pittle-pattling, simple past and past participle pittle-pattled)
present singular third person pittle-pattles · participle present pittle-pattling · participle past pittle-pattled · past pittle-pattled
- archaicintransitiveTo talk unmeaningly; to chatter or prattle.
The world and the devil hath so bewitched us, that we in our deeds, I fear me, too many of us, deny God to be God, whatsoever we pittle-pattle with our tongues.
1549, Hugh Latimer, “The Second Sermon of Master Hugh Latimer, which He Preached before the King’s Majesty [Edward VI], within His Grace’s Palace at Westminster, the Fifteenth Day of March, 1549. To the Reader.”, in George Elwes Corrie, editor, Sermons by Hugh Latimer, Sometime Bishop of Worcester, Martyr, 1555 (The Parker Society for the Publication of the Works of the Fathers and Early Writers of the Reformed English Church; 27), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] University Press, published 1844, →OCLC, page 106
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