tattle
IPA: tˈætʌɫ
noun
- (countable) A tattletale.
- (countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
- (uncountable) Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.
verb
- (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
- (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
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Examples of "tattle" in Sentences
- This is really trivial tittle tattle.
- Tittle tattle of non encyclopedic value.
- It is laughable to rely on such tittle tattle.
- And nobody will play with the tattle tale again.
- This is not tittle tattle but important information.
- But no, I'm not planning to tattle on you to admins.
- In this case the four are the Gossips Mirth, Tattle, Expectation, and Censure.
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