Definitions for tattle

tattle tat·tle

Spelling: [tat-l]
IPA: /ˈtæt l/

Tattle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 50 anagrams from letters in tattle (aelttt).

Definitions for tattle

noun

  1. the act of tattling.
  2. idle talk; chatter; gossip.

verb (used with object)

  1. to utter idly; disclose by gossiping.

verb (used without object)

  1. to let out secrets.
  2. to chatter, prate, or gossip.

Origin of tattle

1475-85; Dutch tatelen; cognate with Middle Low German tatelen

Examples for tattle

I will make certain that he will not blab nor tattle—that is the thing most to be feared.

The gossip is not always of the swift, nor the tattle of the wrong.

He had already begun to tattle, out of jealousy for another man who had supplanted him in her good graces.

Sooner I had a snake in my hut to run and tattle to the gods of me.

So much so that if she had a husband, he dare not beat her lest she run and tattle to them.

She collected all the scandal, all the stories, all the tattle, all the suspicions.

But she was dignified and reticent, and pathos, like tattle, was disgusting to her.

Is not this better than the indulgence in perpetual trifling and tattle?

It was no maiden, nor the tattle of the town, that brought you this.

He lowered his voice as if a sea urchin might hear and tattle.

Word Value for tattle
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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