tattle

verb · nounA2

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

tattles

V_ing/Gerund

tattling

V_ed/pp

tattled

1.
(intransitive)To chatter; to gossip.
2.
(Canada, US, derogatory, intransitive)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.
3.
(intransitive, obsolete)To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

tattles

1.
(countable)A tattletale.
2.
(Canada, US, countable, derogatory)Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
3.
(uncountable)Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

telltale tit

Cùng gốc / liên quan

snitches get stitchestwattle

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle Dutch tatelen, tateren (to babble, chatter) (modern tatelen, tateren (to talk, chatter)), originally imitative. The word is cognate with tätelje, tāteren, tadderen (to babble, chatter) (whence modern tatern), tateln, täteln (to cackle, gabble). Compare also dadel, dadull (tattling, gossip), and its alteration twaddle.