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Definition: Tittle-tattle |
Tittle-tattleNoun1. Light informal conversation for social occasions. Verb1. Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tittle-tattle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1664. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang in 1811 | TITTLE-TATTLE. Idle discourse, scandal, women's talk, or small talk. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: Tittle-tattleSynonyms: causerie (n), chin-wag (n), chin-wagging (n), chitchat (n), gab (n), gabfest (n), gossip (n), small talk (n), blab (v), blabber (v), chatter (v), clack (v), gabble (v), gibber (v), maunder (v), palaver (v), piffle (v), prate (v), prattle (v), tattle (v), twaddle (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conversation | 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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tittle-tattle |
| English words defined with "tittle-tattle": Tattlery. (references) |
| "Tittle-tattle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tittle-tattle" is used about 15 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "tittle-tattle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | szóbeszéd (chit-chat, gossiping, hearsay, report, rumor, rumour, whisper), pletyka (clash, gossip, gup, scuttlebut, scuttlebutt, whisper, whispering), 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, tattle, twaddle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mengobrol (chat, chit-chat, yack), berceloteh. (various references) | |
Manx | tutlerys (chat, chatter, gossip, tale-bearing, tale-telling, tattle), tutleraght (gossiping, natter, nattering, slander, tale-bearing, talkativeness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ittle-tattletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tagarelice (blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, chirp chirrup, chitchat, gab, gabble, gossiping, jaw, patter, prate), tagarelar (blather, blether, cackle, chat, chatter, chipper, clack, clat, clatter, dodder, gab, gabble, gas, gossip, jabber, jaw, keckle, patter, prate, talk, tattle), palrar (cackle, chat, chirp, gab, gabble, gaggle, jabber, jaw, prate, talk, tattle), mexericos, mexericar (gab, gossip, intrigue, scandalize, snoop, tattle), má-lÃngua, falatório (gabble, jabber, yap), boatos, andar com mexericos. (various references) | |
Russian | тары-бары. (various references) | |
Swedish | skvaller (gossip, scandal, slander, tattle, tittle tattle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chuyện tầm phà o (fiddle-faddle, fudge, gas, gossipry, prate, tattle), chuyện nhảm nhà (ball, poppycock, talkee-talkee, talking), chuyện ngá»"i lê đôi mách (gossipry). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® YAWL-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-t-t-t-t-t-t" | |
-5 letters: ailette, attelet. | |
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