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Webster 1913 Edition
Tattle
Tat′tle
,Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tattled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Tattling
.] [Akin to OE.
tateren
, LG. tateln
, D. tateren
to stammer, and perhaps to E. titter
.] 1.
To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
The
tattling
quality of age, which is always narrative. Dryden.
2.
To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer;
as, a
. tattling
girlTat′tle
,Noun.
Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
[They] told the
tattle
of the day. Swift.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tattle
TAT'TLE
, v.i.1.
To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning. Excuse it by the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.
2.
To tell tales; to communicate secrets; as a tattling girl.TAT'TLE
,Noun.
They told the tattle of the day.
Definition 2024
tattle
tattle
English
Verb
tattle (third-person singular simple present tattles, present participle tattling, simple past and past participle tattled)
- (intransitive, pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
- (intransitive) To chatter.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1
- BEATRICE. He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.
- Dryden
- the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1
Synonyms
Translations
to report others' wrongdoings or violations
to chatter
Noun
tattle (uncountable)
- A tattletale.
- Gossip; idle talk.
Related terms
Translations
tattletale — see tattletale