Meaning of Tattle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tattletale.
   countable
2. Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
   Canada, US, countable, derogatory
3. Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“We agree on almost nothing, everything is a battle / Every secret from him is kept, his rep is being a tattle”

“Have a special small bucket called the tattle bucket. Make name cards for each child. […] When children have a tattle, instead of disrupting the class, they get their name card and put it in the tattle bucket. Look in the bucket at varying times during the day. If you see a name card, go to the child and say, "I see you have your name card in the tattle bucket. What would you like to tell me?" Many times, children will have forgotten all about the tattle.”

“Prattles and Tattles, / O'er Bottles, / Shall ſtill cheriſh my Fancy, / Better, and ſweeter, / And greater, / Than dull Tea with Nancy.”

“But, as ill tongues are never wanting to disturb the repose of honest families, there was such a tattle about my wife going to dress the corregidor's victuals, make his bed, and the like, that all the town rang of it.”

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