"betwattle" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly a back formation from betwattled, late 18th-century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betwattles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betwattling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betwattled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betwattled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "betwattle (third-person singular simple present betwattles, present participle betwattling, simple past and past participle betwattled)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "West Country English",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
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            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jo Ann Ferguson, Miss Charity's Case (Zebra Regency Romance), →ISBN:",
          "text": "She would not let a man betwattle her with kisses... again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jocelyn Kelley, Lost in Shadow:",
          "text": "\"No, you have tried to betwattle me by making the facts fit your assumption of who killed you and why.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "id": "en-betwattle-en-verb-awU3SgJo",
      "links": [
        [
          "surprise",
          "surprise"
        ],
        [
          "confound",
          "confound"
        ],
        [
          "befuddle",
          "befuddle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, transitive, West Country) To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Country",
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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        {
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          "name": "West Country English",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "53 47",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
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          ],
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, intransitive, West Country) To be in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Country",
        "archaic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "betwaddle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "betwattle"
}

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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly a back formation from betwattled, late 18th-century Dorset British slang for confused, bewildered.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "betwattles",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betwattling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betwattled",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "betwattled",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "West Country English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1996, Jo Ann Ferguson, Miss Charity's Case (Zebra Regency Romance), →ISBN:",
          "text": "She would not let a man betwattle her with kisses... again.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Jocelyn Kelley, Lost in Shadow:",
          "text": "\"No, you have tried to betwattle me by making the facts fit your assumption of who killed you and why.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "surprise",
          "surprise"
        ],
        [
          "confound",
          "confound"
        ],
        [
          "befuddle",
          "befuddle"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, transitive, West Country) To surprise, to confound, to befuddle, to put in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Country",
        "archaic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with archaic senses",
        "West Country English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic, intransitive, West Country) To be in a distressed state of mind."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "West-Country",
        "archaic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "betwaddle"
    }
  ],
  "word": "betwattle"
}