tratler
English
Noun
tratler (plural tratlers)
- prattler, idle talker
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
- For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales,
What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis?
And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
- For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales;
- 1678, John Ray, A Collection of Engliſh Proverbs, page 357:
- A tratler is worſe then a thief.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.:
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