tratler

English

Noun

tratler (plural tratlers)

  1. 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.
    • 1678, John Ray, A Collection of Engliſh Proverbs, page 357:
      A tratler is worſe then a thief.

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