tartle

- From Scottish, to hesitate in recognizing a person or thing, as happens when you are introduced to someone whose name you cannot recall; so you say, "Pardon my tartle!"

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TARTLE - Scottish: to hesitate when you are introducing someone whose name you can't quite remember.

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tartle (TAR-tul; Scottish; verb): to hesitate in recognizing a person or thing.

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Some amang the Gentle vulgar, that are mair nice than wise, may tartle at the Braidness, or, (as they name it) coarse Expressions.

'The Book of Maybees is very Braid': Ramsay's Collection of Scots Proverbs and Enlightenment Print Culture

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