Obs. [f. as prec. + -ING2.] That ‘trattles’; chattering, tattling, gossiping.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xviii. 39. Thair tratling tungis that all furth temiss.
1559. Aylmer, Harborowe, P j b. The tratling Scot shal knocke out your chestes botoms.
a. 1585. Polwart, Flyting w. Montgomerie, 129. Ȝet, tratling truiker, truth to tell [etc.].
