A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
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Quotation dates: 1460, 1610
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(Tittill,) Title, Tutle, v. [ME and e.m.E. tutel (a1225), tytyll (c1450), tytle (1525), tyttle (a1548), OFlem. tuyten, Du. dial. tuiten. Also in the later dial.] intr. To whisper, gossip. —c1460 Thewis Wysmen 375.
Thai wyll men … scorn … And mak a mow behynd thar bak; Tutland and tratland in the toune, Ay makand murmeracioune c1610 Melville Mem. xxv.
In many of these rules I confess I … never minded my own … profit: For otherwise I should have … titled in the Queen's ear that her rebellious subjects … should have been exemplarily punished [etc.] … This kind of language … would have procured to myself great bribes
