tattle
Signification (Anglais)
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- To chatter; to gossip.
- Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody.
- (obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
Concepts
Synonymes
babble out
blab out
idle talk
be talkative
be widely spoken
rattle away
chin wagging
chin-wagging
give an account
pass around
tittle tattle
inform against
report on
Fréquence
Coupé comme
tat‧tle
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ˈtæt(ə)l/
Étymologie (Anglais)
In summary
From Middle Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to babble, chatter”) (modern Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to talk, chatter”)), originally imitative. The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian tätelje (“to talk nonsense, babble”), Middle Low German tāteren, tadderen (“to babble, chatter”) (whence modern German Low German tatern (“to chatter”)), Low German tateln, täteln (“to cackle, gabble”). Compare also Middle English dadel, dadull (“tattling, gossip”), and its alteration twaddle.
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