tittlebat

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English

Noun

tittlebat (plural tittlebats)

(UK, dialect, archaic) The three-spined stickleback.
- 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Chapter 1”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, , published 1837, →OCLC, page 1:
  “Speculations on the Source of the Hampstead Ponds, with Some Observations on the Theory of Tittlebats;”.

References

“tittlebat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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