tattle
Senso (Inglese)
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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.
sinonimi
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
Frequenza
Con il trattino come
tat‧tle
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈtæt(ə)l/
Etimologia (Inglese)
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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