[
US
/ˈtætəɫ/
]
[ UK /tˈætəl/ ]
[ UK /tˈætəl/ ]
NOUN
- disclosing information or giving evidence about another
VERB
-
divulge confidential information or secrets
Be careful--his secretary talks - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
How To Use tattle In A Sentence
- They're so silly, and they tattle.
- Most political diaries are written by politicians themselves but this one records the daily political tittle-tattle told to a wife over the dinner table and is therefore more revealing.
- When you take away the sex, drugs and tattletales, the remaining story is very ordinary.
- Thanks for your company on this marathon day of tittle-tattle. Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened
- Like so much of what's been reported about Lorna Moon, it was largely codswallop, the tittle-tattle of small town gossips.
- In 1709 a magazine called Tattler began publication.
- Whatever one's views, it's great to rediscover the ability to animate politics through a discussion of ideas rather than personality or passing tittle-tattle.
- It wouldn't be until Monday morning that she'd have to face the consequences of being a tattletale.
- Not so if it's just so much tittle-tattle about essentially private affairs. News of the World vs. WikiLeaks
- So now you're going to play tattletale and report everything to icky Snapey?