it appears in the DT in one version of "The Jolly Beggarman", with fairly clear meaning as "lively conversation"

"The beggar was a cunnin' loon, ne'er a word he spak,
wi' a foll and me doll and me dandy-o
but when he got his turn done, he began to crack,
wi' a teer-a-noora neer-a-noora nandy-o."