tittle-tattle
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tittle-tattle
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Reduplication of tattle.
noun tittle-tattles
- Petty, idle gossip. Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]
- An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.
verb tittle-tattles · tittle-tattling · tittle-tattled
- To engage in gossip. ‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’
- To spread gossip.
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noun idle gossip
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title = {tittle-tattle},
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