Eve swore Minnie to secrecy in hopes that she wouldn't tattle about what they'd done.
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Tattle
//ˈtæt(ə)l//
Synonyms for "tattle" (135 found)
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14 entriesderived
6 entrieshas context
3 entriesholonym
2 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
11 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
59 translations across 20 languages.
Bulgarian
4 entries- клюки noun (idle talk; gossip)
- доноснича verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- дрънкам verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- клюкарствам verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
Burmese
1 entries- အတင်း noun (idle talk; gossip)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 打小報告 /打小报告 verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Czech
4 entries- žvanění noun (idle talk; gossip)
- kecat verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- klevetit verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- klábosit verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
Dutch
4 entries- babbelen verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- kletsen verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- klikken verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- roddelen verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Finnish
4 entries- juoruilu noun (idle talk; gossip)
- juttelu noun (idle talk; gossip)
- rupattelu noun (idle talk; gossip)
- juoruilla verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
French
3 entries- cafarder verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- cafter verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- moucharder verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Galician
2 entries- leriar verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- parolar verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
German
4 entries- Klatsch noun (idle talk; gossip)
- Tratsch noun (idle talk; gossip)
- klatschen verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- petzen verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Hungarian
2 entries- megmond verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- árulkodik verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Icelandic
2 entries- kjafta verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- segja frá verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Ido
1 entries- babilar verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
Japanese
1 entries- 告げ口 verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Macedonian
1 entries- тужи verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Portuguese
3 entries- bisbilhotar verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- dedurar verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- delatar verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Romanian
2 entries- bârfi verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- turna verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Russian
3 entries- болта́ть verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- трепа́ться verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- я́бедничать verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- izbr̀bljati verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- избр̀бљати verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Spanish
4 entries- charlotear verb (to chatter — see also chatter, gossip)
- charlotear verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- chivarse verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
- delatar verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Vietnamese
1 entries- hớt verb (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
What little girl didn't tattle to her mother about the naughty things the boys were doing?
Source: tatoeba (12056811)
He were an excellent man that were made iuſt in the mid-way between him and Benedick, the one is too like an image and ſaies nothing, and the other too like my ladies eldeſt ſonne, euermore tatling.
Source: wiktionary
By this time, My Lord, I doubt not but that you wonder, why I have run off from my Biaſs ſo long together, and made ſo tedious a Digreſſion from Satire to Heroique Poetry. But if You will not excuſe it, by the tattling Quality of Age, which, as Sir William Davenant ſays, is always Narrative; yet I hope the uſefulneſs of what I have to ſay on this Subject, will qualifie the remoteneſs of it; […]
Source: wiktionary
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