tittle-tattling
- present participle of tittle-tattle.
Example Sentences
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While visiting Bonn with the President in July, he appeared with a new German friend in a manner so cozy that it immediately made the Washington Star's tittle-tattling "Ear" column.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no card playing, "quarreling with or whipping wives . . . tittle-tattling ... or running about."
From Time Magazine Archive
Who could have been tittle-tattling about me so?
From Eyes Like the Sea by Jókai, Mór
Ada Alice Arabella Angelina Andal, Why do you talk for ever, such a tittle-tattling scandal?
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)
Is there not milking-time, when you are going to bed, or kiln-hole, to whistle off these secrets, but you must be tittle-tattling before all our guests? 'tis well they are whispering.
From The Winter's Tale by Shakespeare, William
