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"ref": "1700, Joseph Glanvil [i.e., Joseph Glanvill], “The Preface”, in Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions. In Two Parts. […], 3rd edition, London: Printed for A. L. and sold by Roger Tuckyr, […], →OCLC",
"text": "Nor can any Man be either wiſe or happy till he hath arrived to that greatneſs of Mind, that no more conſiders the tatling of the multitude than the whiſtling of the Wind.",
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"To chatter; to gossip."
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"(intransitive) To chatter; to gossip."
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"roman": "drǎnkam",
"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "дрънкам"
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"roman": "kljukarstvam",
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"word": "клюкарствам"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "juoruilla"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "rupatella"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "klatschen"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "babilar"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "bisbilhotar"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
"word": "bârfi"
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"roman": "boltátʹ",
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"ref": "2009, Maryln Appelbaum, “How to Handle Children Who are Disruptive”, in How to Handle Hard-to-handle Preschoolers: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing; Appelbaum Training Institute, page 4",
"text": "There are some children who just like to talk about others. They are not reporting. They are tattling, telling one negative after another. Their goal is to get others in trouble. […] Children sometimes do not mean to tattle about someone else. They do it because they are having a problem with another child and just don't know any other way to handle the problem.",
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{
"ref": "2009, Renee Gregory, “I’m Gettin’ Broccoli for Dinner”, in Bugs, Bears and S’mores: Songs of the Great Outdoors, Pittsburgh, Pa.: RoseDog Books, page 100",
"text": "I trapped the girls inside their tent / Someone tattled on me / Put a frog in the bathroom vent / Someone tattled on me / Gave my dinner to a bear / Put a snake in Auntie's chair / And a tick in Gramp's rootbeer / Someone tattled on me",
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"ref": "2015, Deanne A. Crone, Leanne S. Hawken, Robert H. Horner, “Conducting a Functional Behavioral Assessment”, in Building Positive Behavior Support Systems in Schools: Functional Behavioral Assessment, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y., London: The Guilford Press, part II (Embedding Functional Behavioral Assessment within School Systems: Case Examples), page 39",
"text": "Vera is a kindergarten student who loves to be the center of adult attention. She has a quick temper and frequently talks out in class. She also frequently \"tattles\" on other students.",
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"Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody."
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"(intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody."
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"word": "rat out"
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"roman": "donosniča",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "доноснича"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "打小報告"
},
{
"_dis1": "4 93 3",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "dǎ xiǎo bàogào",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "打小报告"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "roddelen"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "klikken"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "juoruta"
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "narauttaa"
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "cafarder"
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"_dis1": "4 93 3",
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "cafter"
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"_dis1": "4 93 3",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "moucharder"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "petzen"
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"word": "árulkodik"
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"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "kjafta"
},
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"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "segja frá"
},
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
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"word": "тужи"
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "hớt"
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"ref": "1481, “The History of Reynard the Fox”, in William Caxton, transl., edited by Henry Morley, Early Prose Romances: […] (The Carisbrooke Library; IV), London: George Routledge and Sons, […], published 1889, →OCLC, chapter XXVII (How Reynart the Fox Came another Time to the Court), page 108",
"text": "But who can give to his leasing a conclusion, and pronounce it without tatelying, like as it were written tofore him, and that he can so blind the people that his leasing shall better be believed than the truth: that is the man.",
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"To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter."
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"(intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter."
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"word": "snitches get stitches"
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"sense": "to chatter — see also chatter, gossip",
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"word": "打小報告"
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"roman": "dǎ xiǎo bàogào",
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"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "petzen"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "megmond"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "árulkodik"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "kjafta"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "segja frá"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "tsugeguchi",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "告げ口"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "tuži",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "тужи"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "dedurar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "delatar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"tags": [
"informal"
],
"word": "turna"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "jábedničatʹ",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "я́бедничать"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "izbr̀bljati"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "избр̀бљати"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "charlotear"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "delatar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "soplar"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to report incriminating information or wrongdoing",
"word": "hớt"
}
],
"word": "tattle"
}
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"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English uncountable nouns",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ætəl",
"Rhymes:English/ætəl/2 syllables",
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},
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"1": "nds",
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{
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"1": "nds",
"2": "täteln",
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"2": "dadel"
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"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "gossipfest"
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"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "yakfest"
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"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "hearsay"
}
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"word": "snitches get stitches"
},
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"word": "twattle"
},
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"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "gossip column"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "hoax"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "indiscretion"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "lie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "rumour"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "slander"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "scandal sheet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "slambook"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "tab"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "tabloid"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "yellow press"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"tags": [
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"ref": "2015, K. L. Philpotts, “Little Bro”, in The Chocolate Chip Cookie Tree: A Collection of Poems and Illustrations, Denver, Colo.: Outskirts Press, page 23",
"text": "We agree on almost nothing, everything is a battle / Every secret from him is kept, his rep is being a tattle",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A tattletale."
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"(countable) A tattletale."
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"ref": "2009, Maryln Appelbaum, “How to Handle Children Who are Disruptive”, in How to Handle Hard-to-handle Preschoolers: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing; Appelbaum Training Institute, page 4",
"text": "Have a special small bucket called the tattle bucket. Make name cards for each child. […] When children have a tattle, instead of disrupting the class, they get their name card and put it in the tattle bucket. Look in the bucket at varying times during the day. If you see a name card, go to the child and say, \"I see you have your name card in the tattle bucket. What would you like to tell me?\" Many times, children will have forgotten all about the tattle.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person."
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[
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[
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"(countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person."
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"ref": "1719, T[homas] d’Urfey, “The Toper. The Jolly Toper, that wont Leave His Bottle to Get the Best Wife in Christendom.”, in Wit and Mirth: Or Pills to Purge Melancholy; […], volume II, London: Printed by W. Pearson, for J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 163",
"text": "Prattles and Tattles, / O'er Bottles, / Shall ſtill cheriſh my Fancy, / Better, and ſweeter, / And greater, / Than dull Tea with Nancy.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "1876, anonymous [Diego Hurtado de Mendoza?], chapter XX, in The Spanish Comic Novel, Lazarillo de Tormes, Glasgow: John Calder & Co., […], →OCLC, page 43",
"text": "But, as ill tongues are never wanting to disturb the repose of honest families, there was such a tattle about my wife going to dress the corregidor's victuals, make his bed, and the like, that all the town rang of it.",
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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},
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"ipa": "/ˈtætl̩/",
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"General-American"
]
},
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},
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{
"sense": "tattletale",
"word": "telltale tit"
},
{
"word": "informant"
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{
"word": "gossiper"
},
{
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"tags": [
"dialectal"
],
"word": "clatfart"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"tags": [
"slang"
],
"word": "goss"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "gossip"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "gossipry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "janglery"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"tags": [
"Jamaica"
],
"word": "labrish"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "scuttlebutt"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "skeet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "tale"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "tattle"
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"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
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"word": "tidbit"
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{
"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
"word": "tittle-tattle"
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"source": "Thesaurus:tattle",
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"archaic"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kljuki",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"plural"
],
"word": "клюки"
},
{
"code": "my",
"lang": "Burmese",
"roman": "a.tang:",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"word": "အတင်း"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"word": "rupattelu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"word": "juoruilu"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"word": "juttelu"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Klatsch"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "idle talk; gossip",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Tratsch"
}
],
"word": "tattle"
}
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