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Definition of Tattle
1. Verb. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. "Sam and Sue tattle"
Generic synonyms: Mouth, Speak, Talk, Utter, Verbalise, Verbalize
Specialized synonyms: Babble, Blather, Blether, Blither, Smatter
Derivative terms: Blabber, Chatter, Chatterer, Gabble, Palaver, Piffle, Prate, Prater, Prattle, Prattler, Tittle-tattle, Twaddle, Twaddler
2. Noun. Disclosing information or giving evidence about another.
Generic synonyms: Disclosure, Revealing, Revelation
Derivative terms: Sing, Tell, Telling
3. Verb. Divulge confidential information or secrets. ; "Be careful--his secretary talks"
Generic synonyms: Break, Bring Out, Disclose, Discover, Divulge, Expose, Give Away, Let On, Let Out, Reveal, Unwrap
Related verbs: Spill, Talk
Derivative terms: Blabber, Singing, Talk, Talkative, Tattler
Antonyms: Keep Quiet
Definition of Tattle
1. v. i. To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
2. n. Idle talk or chat; trifling talk; prate.
Definition of Tattle
1. Verb. (intransitive pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To chatter. ¹
3. Noun. A tattletale. ¹
4. Noun. Gossip; idle talk. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tattle
1. to reveal the activities of another [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tattle
Literary usage of Tattle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... is a variant of tidy/ and "vate" is an affix, from the Latin r ado (to go),
meaning " to go and do something. Tittle tattle. tattle ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"... and according to Diefenbach, chatter, tattle. ... gossip, tattle; chwedl,
report, news, a saying, story; ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"J tattle. Sir, you are welcome ashore, Ben. Thank you, thank you, ... tattle.
Well, Miss, I have vour promise. Sir S. Body o' me, madam, you say true. ..."
4. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"Belg. klapp-en, to tattle ; alao, to betray. CLEP, ». tattle, pert loquacity, S.
synon. gab, gash, ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Shak., Tit. And., iv. 2. 168. tattle (tat'l), ». [< tattle, г.] Prate ; idle talk
or chat ; trifling talk. Thus does the old gentleman ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"TROUTING tattle. NOT long ago a traveller, sauntering through the demesne of a
Scottish magnate, whereof the old- fashioned mansion has been lately replaced ..."