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Tittle-tattle

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Petty, idle gossip. uncountable

    "Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]"

  2. 2
    light informal conversation for social occasions wordnet
  3. 3
    An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. countable, uncountable

    "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
  1. 1
    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.’"

  2. 2
    speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly wordnet
  3. 3
    To spread gossip.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Reduplication of tattle.

Etymology 2

Reduplication of tattle.

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