EGAVE

tattle

About 0.14 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To chatter; to gossip.
  2. verb Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. verb To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
  4. noun A tattletale.
  5. noun Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
  6. noun Idle talk; gossip; an instance of such talk or gossip.

Similar words

blab tittle-tattle chatter prattle gabble prate blabber twaddle babble maunder

Often followed by

of and on about to that tale in was

Word family

tattled tattles tattling

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