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| Date: | 1400-1500 |
| Language: | Middle Dutch |
| Origin: | tatelen |
Related topics:
1 old-fashioned to talk about other people's private lives [= gossip]
2D especially American English if a child tattles, they tell a parent or teacher that another child has done something bad ➔ tittle-tattle
Robert is always tattling on me for things I didn't do. —tattle noun [uncountable]
—tattler noun [countable]
