Tattling

Definition: Tattling

Tattling

Adjective

1. Prone to communicate confidential information.

Date "tattling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1386. (references)

Synonyms: Tattling

Synonyms: blabbermouthed (adj), leaky (adj), talebearing(a) (adj), tattling(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tattling

English words defined with "tattling": Eavesdropping. (references)

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Modern Usage: Tattling

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

You keep right on tattling, sweetie pie. (The Oblongs...; writing credit: Ana Katz)

Cindy, you know by tattling on your friends, you're really just tattling on yourself. (The Brady Bunch Movie; writing credit: Laurice Elehwany)

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

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Commercial Usage: Tattling

Domain	Title
Books	A children's book about tattling (reference) Dealing With Tattling (The Conflict Resolution Library) (reference) Let's Talk About Tattling (Let's Talk About Series) (reference) Regendering the School Story: Sassy Sissies and Tattling Tomboys (reference) Tattling (Let's Talk About Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tattling

"Tattling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tattling" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	2	245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Tattling

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "tattling": title-tattling, tittle-tattling.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tattling

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
tattling	7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tattling

Language		Translations for "tattling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
German		tratschend (gossiping), klatschend (clapping, slapping). (various references)

Manx		tutleragh (chatty, gossip, gossipy, loquacious), skeealeraght (communicativeness, tale-bearing, tattle), skeealeragh (communicative, gossip, prating, story-teller, tale-bearer, tattler), beealeragh (blabber, mocking, prattle). (various references)

Pig Latin		attlingtay.(various references)

Scottish		gab (a tattling mouth, nm. tattling mouth). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Tattling

Misspellings
	"Tattling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gattling, Tuttlingen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Tattling

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-i-l-n-t-t-t"
	-1 letter: tatting.
	-2 letters: lattin.
	-3 letters: algin, align, atilt, giant, glint, liang, ligan, linga, taint, titan.
	-4 letters: agin, alit, anil, anti, gain, gait, gilt, glia, gnat, lain, lang, lati, ling, lint, nail, tail, tain, tali, tang, tilt, ting, tint.
	-5 letters: ail, ain, ait, alt, ani, ant, att, gal, gan, gat, gin, git, lag, lat, lin, lit, nag, nil, nit, tag, tan, tat, til, tin, tit.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-i-l-n-t-t-t"
	+1 letter: twattling.
	+2 letters: tabletting.
	+3 letters: teetotaling, titillating.
	+4 letters: anticlotting, teetotalling.
	+5 letters: antilittering, thanatologist, titillatingly.
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