Definitions for tattles

tattles tat·tle

Spelling: [tat-l]
IPA: /ˈtæt l/

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

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in tattles (aelsttt).

Definitions for tattles

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 tattles

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

Examples for tattles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Word Value for tattles
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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