Tattle

Definition: Tattle

Tattle

Noun

1. Disclosing information or giving evidence about another.

Verb

1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly.

2. Divulge information or secrets; spill the beans; "Be careful--his secretary talks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tattle" was first used: 1481. (references)

Note: Tattle \Tat"tle\, intransitive verb [imperfect & past participle. Tattled; Tattling.]. (references)

Synonyms: Tattle

Conversation

Verb: talk together, converse, confabulate; hold on a conversation, carry on a conversation, join in a conversation, engage in a conversation; put in a word; shine in conversation; bandy words; parley; palaver; chat, gossip, tattle; prate; (loquacity); powwow.

Causerie, chat, chitchat; small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk; tattle, gossip, babble, babblement; tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit; talk of the town, talk of the village.

Disclosure

Divulge, reveal, break; squeal, tattle, sing, rat, snitch; let into the secret; reveal the secrets of the prison house; tell; (inform); breathe, utter, blab, peach; let out, let fall, let drop, let slip, spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag; betray; tell tales, come out of school; come out with; give vent, give utterance to; open the lips, blurt out, vent, whisper about; speak out; (make manifest); make public; unriddle; (find out) a; split.

News

Report, rumor, hearsay, on dit, flying rumor, news stirring, cry, buzz, bruit, fame; talk, oui dire, scandal, eavesdropping; town tattle, table talk; canard, topic of the day, idea afloat.

Crosswords: Tattle

Beth, honey, nobody likes a tattle tale (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz)

Tattle Television (1940)

The Tattle Tail (1993)

Tattle Tale (1992)

Celebrity Tattle Tales (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Beetle Bailey: Tattle 'Tail' (reference)

• Tattle Tails (Barkley's School for Dogs, 10) (reference)

• Tattle Tales Of Cupid (Notable American Authors) (reference)

• Teacher, Teacher, I Declare!: And Other Little Tattle Tales (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Tattle Tale (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "tattle": tittle tattle. Additional references.

Ending with "tattle": tittle-tattle.

Albanian

llomotitje (badinage, cackle, chitchat, clack, flubdub, gibber, lip-labor, lip-labour, mag, prate, wag, wish-wash), llap (babble, prate, prattle), llafe (blah, claptrap, comment, gab, hassle, jaw, scuttlebutt, taradiddle, tittle tattle, waffle). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نميمة (dirt, gossip, scandal, talebearing, talk), ‏نم (gossip, sneak, snitch, tale, tell smb. smth., tell tales), ‏وشى ب (inform against, split), ‏وشى (blow the whistle, intersperse, malign, nark, peachy, rat, rubricate, sing, sneak, snitch, tale, tell, tell on, tell tales, telltale, traduce), ‏إغتاب (back bite, detract, slag, slander), ‏ثرثر (babble, blab, blabber, bluster, chatter, clack, clatter, crack, gabble, gas, gibber, give oneself airs, gossip, jabber, jangle, jaw, natter, palaver, patter, prate, prattle, quack, rap, rumble, shoot one's mouth off, smatter, talk, twaddle, twitter, yap). (various references)

Bulgarian 

клюкарствувам (gossip, talk scandal, tittle tattle), клюки (chitchat, comment, gup, scandal, talk, tittle tattle), бърборя (babble, cank, gab, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, rattle), бърборене (chatter, gab, prate, prattle, rattle), дърдоря (cackle, dodder, gab, gabble, jabber, jaw, palaver, patter, prate), дрънкане (blab, chink, clink, gab, jangle, plunk, rattle, thrum, tinkle). (various references)

Czech

klevetit (backbite, gossip, talk), klepy (dirt, gossip), žvanit (babble, blab, burble, cackle, gabble, gas, natter, palaver, pettifog, piffle, prate, prattle, rattle, spout, talk, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yap), žvanìní (cackle, chatter, chitchat, claptrap, double talk, flapdoodle, flubdub, gab, gas, piffle, prate, prattle, rigmarole, twaddle, waffle, wind). (various references)

Farsi 

یاوه (Absurd, Babble, Nonsense), فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Divulge, Giveaway, Manifest, Peach, Reveal, Squeal, Tell, Uncloak, Unfold, Utter), حرف مفت (Guff), دری وری گفتن . (various references)

French

moucharder (tell tales), jaser, cancans (tittle tattle), cancaner, cafarder (tale), bavarder (talk). (various references)

German

tratschen (gossip, to chin-wag), klatschen (applaud, blab, clap, go smack, gossip, lap, pitter patter, plash, ripple, slap, slosh, smack, smash, sneak, splash, swat, talk, tell tales, thwack, to applaud, to chin-wag, to clap). (various references)

Greek 

φλυαρώ (babble, blabber, chatter, gab, gabble, gibber, gossip, jabber, palaver, prate, rattle away, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, yammer, yap, yatter). (various references)

Hebrew 

רכילות (chat, gossip, hearsay, libel, scandal, slander, tale taling). (various references)

Hungarian

terefere (chit-chat, clash, gossiping), fecsegés (babble, blab, blat, blatter, cackle, chaffering, chat, chatter, clack, clash, driveling, drivelling, gab, gabble, gossiping, jabber, jangle, lip, loquacity, palaver, piffle, prattle, small talk, talk, tittle-tattle, twaddle), csacsog (burble, prate, to burble, to chirp, to jabber, to prattle). (various references)

Indonesian

bertutur (converse). (various references)

Italian

spettegolare, pettegolare (applaud, clap, gossip, tittle tattle), ciarlare (blab, blather, chatter, natter), chiacchierare (blab, chat, chatter, gossip, natter, prate, rap, talk, twaddle, visit), chiacchiera (babble, gab, gossip, natter, waffle). (various references)

Manx

tutlerys (chat, chatter, gossip, tale-bearing, tale-telling, tittle-tattle), skeealeraght (communicativeness, tale-bearing, tattling). (various references)

Pig Latin

attletay.(various references)

Portuguese

tagarelar (blather, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chipper, clack, clat, clatter, dodder, gab, gabble, gas, gossip, jabber, jaw, keckle, patter, prate, talk, tittle-tattle), palrar (cackle, chat, chirp, gab, gabble, gaggle, jabber, jaw, prate, talk, tittle-tattle), mexericar (gab, gossip, intrigue, scandalize, snoop, tittle-tattle), bisbilhotar (gossip, kike, pry, snoop). (various references)

Romanian

trãncãni (Bab, babble, cackle, clack, clash, clatter, cosher, gab, gibber, gossip, jabber, jangle, Maunder, natter, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, yap), trãncãnealã (babble, chit chat, clack, clatter, drivel, flippancy, gibber, rattle, rigmarole, yap), vorbi vrute şi nevrute, flecãri (babble, blab, blether, cackle, chatter, gossip, humbug, palaver, prate, prattle, rattle, talk, tittle tattle), flecãrealã (babble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, gabble, gossip, patter, prate, prattle, talk, tittle tattle). (various references)

Russian 

ябедничать (tell on), сплетня (gossip, gup, scuttlebutt, tale, whispering), болтовня (badinage, banter, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chitchat, clatter, confabulation, footle, gab, gammon, gas, gassing, gossip, gup, hubble bubble, jive, mag, patter, piffle, rattle, spiels, tittle tattle, twaddle, waffle, wish-wash), болтать (blab, cank, chat, chatter, chin, confabulate, cosher, gab, haver, jabber, natter, prate, prattle, rattle, shoot the breeze, twitter, witter). (various references)

Scottish

goileam (fire), giolam , gileim. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raznositi (deliver), prijaviti (grass, inform, inform against, rat, register, snitch, tell on, turn in), dostavljač (delator, deliverer, fink, informant, informer, nark, rat, squealer, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale), dostaviti (deliver, inform, rat), brbljivac (babbler, blabber, chatterbox, chatterer, gabbler, jay, prater, prattler, tattler, tattletale, windbag). (various references)

Spanish

parlotear (babble, cackle, chatter, gab, gabble, gas, natter, prate, prattle, waffle, yap), habladurías (gossip, rumor, rumour, talk), contar chismes (gossip), chismorreo (gossip, scandal, tittletattle), chismes (bit and pieces, gossip, odds and ends, scandal, talk, whispering), chismear (clack, gossip, talk, tell tales), charlar con (clack, gibber, let out, patter, rap, talk with), charla (babble, causerie, chat, chatter, chitchat, clack, derision, gab, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, rattle, small talk, talk, tittletattle, yap). (various references)

Swedish

sladdra (chatter, gossip, lurch), sladder (chatter, gossip), skvallra (blab, blow the gaff, chew the fat, gossip, let on, natter, peach, sneak, talk, tell, tell tales, tittle tattle), skvaller (gossip, scandal, slander, tittle tattle, tittle-tattle), avslöja (betray, come clean, debunk, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, lay bare, let on, let out, nail, open, relieve, reveal, spill out, unclose, uncover, unfold, unmask, unveil). (various references)

Thai

เปิ�"เผยความลับ, พู�"ไร้สาระ, การนินทา (gossip, talk), ซุบซิบนินทา, คนที่นินทา. (various references)

Turkish

gevezelik etmek (babble, blab, cackle, chat, chatter, clack, gabble, gossip, natter, prate, prattle), gevezelik (babbling, cackle, chattering, chinwag, chitchat, clack, comment, gab, gabble, garrulity, gossip, indiscretion, jaw, jive, loquaciousness, loquacity, mouthiness, prate, prattle, rattle, talkativeness, talky-talk, volubility, windiness, yap), dedikodu yapmak (bear tales, carry tales, gossip, talk scandal, tell tales, tittle tattle, tittletattle, wag one's tongue, whisper), dedikodu (dirt, gossip, grapevine, grapevine telegraph, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, scandal, scuttlebutt, tale, talk, tittle tattle, tittletattle), boşboğazlık etmek (babble, blab, shoot off one's mouth, talk indiscreetly), boşboğazlık (babble, garrulity, idle talk, indiscretion), ağzından kaçırmak (babble, babble out smth., betray, blab, blab out, blunder out, blurt out, let fall, rap out). (various references)

Ukrainian

розпускати плітки (gossip, scandalize, talk, tittle tattle), базікати (babble, blab, blather, burble, cackle, chatter, chin, clatter, expatiate, footle, gab, gabble, gossip, haver, jabber, natter, parleyvoo, piffle, prate, spiel, tittle tattle, twitter, waffle, wag, wiggle-waggle, yak, yak-yak, yarn), базікання (babble, babbling, blab, blather, blether, bunkum, burble, cackle, chatter, chit chat, clatter, flubdub, gabble, gossip, jabber, piffle, prate, spiel, talk, tittle tattle, tootle, twaddle, twitter, waffle, wind, yak-yak), пробовкнутися, плітки (gossip, newsmongering, scandal, tittle tattle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lời nói ba hoa (buncombe, bunkum), chuyện tầm ph� o (fiddle-faddle, fudge, gas, gossipry, prate, tittle-tattle), chuyện ba láp (fiddle-faddle, prate), chuyện ba hoa (rattle). (various references)

Welsh

clebran (babble, chatter, gossip), clebar (chatter, gossip, idle talk), brawl (bluster, boast, brag, gabble). (various references)

tatelen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tattle": tattled, tattler, tattlers, tattles, tattletale, tattletales. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tattle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pattle, taddle, tastle, tatoe, tattie, tattke, tattoe, tette, tettle, Tittie, tittle, Tottel, tottle, ttle, tutel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: latte.

-2 letters: late, tael, tale, tate, teal, teat, tela.

-3 letters: ale, alt, ate, att, eat, eta, lat, lea, let, tae, tat, tea, tel, tet.

-4 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, la, ta.

+1 letter: tartlet, tattled, tattler, tattles, twattle.

+2 letters: flattest, tartlets, tattlers, teetotal, twattled, twattles.

+3 letters: tabletted, tantalate, tantalite, teakettle, teetotals, titillate.

+4 letters: antilitter, battlement, dilettante, dilettanti, gestaltist, glitterati, littermate, multistate, rattletrap, stalactite, stateliest, statutable, tabletting, tantalates, tantalites, tattersall, tattletale, teakettles, teetotaled, teetotaler, teetotally, titillated, titillates, titratable, totalities, triathlete.

+5 letters: antielitist, attemptable, attentional, attentively, battlefront, battlements, dilettantes, gestaltists, leatherette, litterateur, littermates, pantalettes, pentathlete, rattletraps, stalactites, startlement, stealthiest, tactilities, tattersalls, tattletales, teetotalers, teetotaling, teetotalism, teetotalist, teetotalled, teetotaller, tentatively, testability, tetravalent, titillative, triathletes, wettability.