tittlebat
English
Noun
tittlebat (plural tittlebats)
- (Britain, dialectal) The three-spined stickleback.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, Chapter 1, Page 1:
- “Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.
- 1836, Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Chapman & Hall, Chapter 1, Page 1:
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(See the entry for tittlebat in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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