tittle-tattle
noun
gossip or foolish chatter.
tittle-tattling
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present participleof tittle-tattle.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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There was no card playing, "quarreling with or whipping wives . . . tittle-tattling ... or running about."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I heard water tittle-tattling away in deep shadow below.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Going every night to that wicked, cruel, shameful girl and tittle-tattling.
From The Roll-Call by Arnold Bennett
Mr Cargrim, by his late tittle-tattling conversation, had fallen in her good opinion; and she was not going to let him off without a sharp rebuke for his unfounded chatter.
From The Bishop's Secret by Fergus Hume
