tittle-tattle
noun
gossip or foolish chatter.
tittle-tattles
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present tense formof tittle-tattle (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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But just now there are also tittle-tattles in the hall.
From Dorothy Dale in the City by Margaret Penrose
Them as tittle-tattles about dead folks needn't look to lie quiet theirselves in their graves.
From Marcella by Mrs. Humphry Ward
He will not take part in these little tittle-tattles.
From Miss Mapp by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
You can, well, cork the mouths of a thousand bottles, But not that of one that always tittle-tattles.
From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by A. R. Narayanan
