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Tittlebat
Tit′tle-bat
,Noun.
(Zool.)
The three-spined stickleback.
[Prov. Eng.]
Definition 2024
tittlebat
tittlebat
English
Noun
tittlebat (plural tittlebats)
- (Britain, dialect) 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: