betwattleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Possibly a back formation from betwattled, late 18th-century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered.

動詞

betwattle (三人称単数 現在形 betwattles, 現在分詞 betwattling, 過去形および過去分詞形 betwattled)

1. (archaic, transitive, West Country) To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind.
   • 1996, Ferguson, Jo Ann, Miss Charity's Case (Zebra Regency Romance), ISBN 9780821752388:

     She would not let a man betwattle her with kisses... again.

   • 2007, Kelley, Jocelyn, Lost in Shadow:

     "No, you have tried to betwattle me by making the facts fit your assumption of who killed you and why."

2. (archaic, intransitive, West Country) To be in a distressed state of mind.

参照

• A Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial English, John S. Farmer and W. E. Henly, 1905. Betwaddled. Retrieved from archive.org
• Glossary of Provincial Words & Phrases in use in Somersetshire, Williams and Jones, 1873. Betwaddled. Retrieved online.