tittle-tattle
noun
gossip or foolish chatter.
tittle-tattled
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past participleof tittle-tattle.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof tittle-tattle.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
tittle-tattlenoungossip or foolish chatter.
Example Sentences
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Delacroix painted in Nohant's garden studio, and such famous guests as Balzac, Theophile Gautier and Alfred de Vigny argued and tittle-tattled in its drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
At least she on more than one occasion tittle-tattled about her.
From Lady Mary Wortley Montague Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) by Lewis Melville
