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Tattling

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tat·tle  (ttl)
v. tat·tled, tat·tling, tat·tles
v.intr.
1. To reveal the plans or activities of another; gossip. See Synonyms at gossip.
2. To chatter aimlessly; prate.
v.tr.
To reveal through gossiping.
n.
1. Aimless chatter; prattle.
2. Gossip; talebearing.
3. A tattletale.
[Middle English tatelen, to stammer, probably from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.]
tattling·ly adv.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.tattling - prone to communicate confidential information
talebearing, blabbermouthed, leaky
communicatory, communicative - able or tending to communicate; "was a communicative person and quickly told all she knew"- W.M.Thackeray


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"Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing," thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispirited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.
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" After tattling pleasantly of the prospects of the shooting season, of the fashions from Paris, of an accident to a tourist, and of a scandal in the Scottish Kirk, the writer proceeded to the narrative of a case of interest, relating to a marriage in the sphere known (in the language of footmen) as the sphere of "high life.
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The former was the widow of a substantial farmer, a narrow-minded, tattling old gossip, whose character is not worth describing.
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