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Tattle   /tˈætəl/   Listen
verb
Tattle  v. i.  (past & past part. tattled; pres. part. tattling)  
1.
To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat. "The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative."
2.
To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.


noun
Tattle  n.  Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate. "(They) told the tattle of the day."





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"Tattle" Quotes from Famous Books



... her but he was suspected to be at the bottom of it. If she pricked her finger, Jack, to be sure, laid the pin in the way; if some noise in the street disturbed her rest, who could it be but Jack in some of his nocturnal rambles? If a servant ran away, Jack had debauched him. Every idle tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always suspected for the author of it. However, all was nothing to this last affair ...
— The History of John Bull • John Arbuthnot
... to be in town, is she?" said Mr. Furnival, after a moment's consideration. He was angry with Lady Mason at the moment for having put him into this position. Why had she told her son that she was to be up in London, thus producing conversation and tittle-tattle which made deceit on his part absolutely necessary? Lady Mason's business in London was of a nature which would not bear much open talking. She herself, in her earnest letter summoning Mr. Furnival up from ...
— Orley Farm • Anthony Trollope
... Rat-tat-tat-tattle thru the street I hear the drummers makin' riot, An' I set thinkin' o' the feet Thet follered once an' now are quiet,— White feet ez snowdrops innercent, Thet never knowed the paths o' Satan, Whose ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various
... that, however this gentleman secretly despised his commanding officer, he was too honourable to encourage the tattle of his inferiors. In this no doubt he showed his breeding; for it was his boast that he was sprung from one of the most ancient families in Wales, where the gentry, he was wont to say, are of older lineage than those of any other ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward
... a stream of ever-flowing anecdote. Much that he gives us in his "General History of the Stage" is only gossip, yet what is there more fascinating than tittle-tattle about players? The gossip of the drawing-room is merely inane, or else scandalous; but shift the scene to the theatre, and a story no longer bores; it is consecrated by the sacrament of interest. Is any apology necessary, ...
— The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield • Edward Robins


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