# trittle trattle

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle.
2. Cheap, tawdry trinkets or nick-nacks; worthless small items one might buy at a market.

## Etymology
A Scots and dialectal English term stemming from the verb trattle (to prattle/chatter) and related to "trinkum-trankum". An earlier version, trittlyl-trattyll, is recorded as early as 1529.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-09-03.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/trittle-trattle