tattle
Significado (Inglés)
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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.
Sinónimos
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
Frecuencia
Con guión como
tat‧tle
Pronúnciase como (IPA)
/ˈtæt(ə)l/
Etimoloxía (Inglés)
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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