Green’s Dictionary of Slang

betwattle v.

to confuse.

1848

Devizes & Wilts Gaz. 10 Feb. 3/5: A young man had betwattled the two nymphs.

In derivatives

betwattled (adj.)

bewildered, confused.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1824		Examiner 14 Nov. 8/2: His mode of complaining [...] reminds us of the concern of the betwattled politician in Murphy’s farce.
1853		Hants. Teleg. 5 Mar. 4/6: We do not [...] reply either for our friends the Quakers, or for the betwattled followers of a certain Yankee blacksmith.
1868		Era (London) 2 Aug. 10/1: Home comforts [...] must tumble to pieces through [...] blind and betwattled management and sorry oversight.
1911		Lichfield Mercury 20 Jan. 3/3: ‘Hould thee clack and get out of my way.’ [...] ‘Thee’st betwattled, I reckon’.