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.

Anagrams

• Rattler, rattler