Now dial. Forms: 4–5 titeler, tituler, 5 titler, (Sc. titlar, tittillar); 9 dial. tittler. [f. TITTLE v.1 + -ER1.] One who ‘tittles’ or tattles; a whisperer, tell-tale, gossip.
1399. Langl., Rich. Redeles, IV. 57. Somme were tituleris and to þe kyng wente, And fformed him of foos þat good ffrendis weren.
14[?]. Titeleris [see quot. 1377 s.v. TITTERER2].
1463. Paston Lett., II. 133. Prevy titlers and flaterers.
c. 1470. Henryson, Poems (S.T.S.), III. 139 (title), Aganis haisty credence of titlaris. Ibid., 21. The tittillaris [v.r. tutelar] so in his eir [MS. heir] can [= gan] roun.
1904. Eng. Dial. Dict. (Warwicks.), Tittler, a babbler, a tell-tale.
Tittler2, a tickler: see TITTLE v.2
