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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Twattle, adj. [Cf. e.m.E. twattle (1598) a pygmy, a dwarf.] Of verse: Short, little. —Urquhart Rabelais iii xviii 144.
They shew him the short and twattle [F. petits] verses that were written [sc. lines of 4 syllables]
