Tattle

/ˈtæt(ə)l/

Synonyms for "tattle" (144 found)

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Closest matches (29)

Noun(5 words)

babbleback-fence gossipbe indiscreetbe unguardedbear witness againstbetraybetray a confidenceblab blabber blather bletherblow the whistleblurtblurt outbuzz chatter chitchat

Verb(7 words)

babblebabble outblabblab outblabber blabs chatter

Strong matches (43)

Verb(5 words)

clack finked gabble gibber gossipped

Noun(16 words)

clatfart complaint disclose disclosure divulge finks goss gossip gossiper gossipping gossipry gossips grass inform informant labrish

clatter cry divulge finkgive awaygossip gossiping gossipmongering gossipry grapevine grassgroundless rumorhearsayidle talkinforminform againstinform onjabber leaklet drop

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let falllet slip

Related words (72)

Verb(14 words)

let the cat out of the bagmaunder palaver peach piffle prate prattle ratted singspill the beanssquealed talk tittle-tattle twaddle

narc natter news newsmongering peachpiece of gossipprate prattle ratretail gossiprevealreveal a secretrumble rumor scuttlebuttsell outsing snitchsnitch onspill

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spill the beanssqueal stool story tale talebearing taletelling talktattle ontelltell idle talestell ontell secretstell talestestify againsttittle tattletittle-tattleturn informerword

Noun(19 words)

narking rats report reveal scuttlebutt singing skeet snitches snitching spill squeak squealing squeals tale tattletale telling tidbit tittle-tattle twittle-twattle

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6 relation types

More general

29 entries

breakbring outcommunication disclose disclosure discover divulge exposegive awayinform informant informationlet onlet outmouth person

Showing 16 of 29 words.

More specific

10 entries

air private mattersname to authoritiesoffice snitchofficial reportreport wrongdoingschoolyard tattlerschoolyard tattlingshare confidencesspill secretstestify

Collocations

10 entries

blabbermouthinformal tattleinformantschoolyard tattlingsnitchtattle reporttattle to authoritytattletale tattling whistleblower

Inflections

3 entries

tattled tattles tattling

Derivations

3 entries

tattler tattletale tattling

similar

2 entries

spill talk

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

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Eve swore Minnie to secrecy in hopes that she wouldn't tattle about what they'd done.

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What little girl didn't tattle to her mother about the naughty things the boys were doing?

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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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