Meaning of tittle-tattle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Petty, idle gossip.
   uncountable
2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]”

“She has trouble⟳ enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place⟳. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby.”

“And, when rumours about him surfaced in the form⟳ of insinuating magazine articles demanding to know⟳ why he hadn’t found a wife yet, his wily agent Henry Willson made sure that none of them stuck, even if it meant leaking tittle-tattle about other clients instead.”

“If I can once extirpate the race⟳ of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope⟳ by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce⟳ the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.”

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