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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tittle-tattle
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter.
▪ She was becoming less interested in any tittle-tattle he might purvey that might help her with the case than in himself.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tittle-tattle

Tittle-tattle \Tit"tle-tat`tle\, v. i. To talk idly; to prate.
--Shak.

Tittle-tattle

Tittle-tattle \Tit"tle-tat`tle\, n. [A reduplication of tattle.]

  1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.
    --Arbuthnot.

  2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [R.]
    --Tatler.

Wiktionary
tittle-tattle

n. 1 petty, idle gossip 2 An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. vb. 1 to engage in such gossip 2 to spread gossip

WordNet
tittle-tattle

  1. n. light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: chitchat, small talk, gab, gabfest, gossip, chin-wag, chin-wagging, causerie]

  2. v. speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]

Usage examples of "tittle-tattle".

The last thing I want is for Shane or Paula to become topics for the gossip mongers in this family, and we all know there are a few who would love to tittle-tattle, perhaps blow this matter out of proportion.

Nightingale, who, in many other instances, was rather too effeminate in his disposition, had a pretty strong inclination to tittle-tattle.

The last thing I want is for Shane or Paula to become topics for the gossip mongers in this family, and we all know there are a few who would love to tittle-tattle, perhaps blow this matter out of proportion.

These were Madame Langlois, Madame Caron, Madame Dubreuil, Madame Tuvache, and regularly from two to five o'clock the excellent Madame Homais, who, for her part, had never believed any of the tittle-tattle about her neighbour.

But later on, most assuredly they had met one another on the Paris pavement, in such wise that the big carroty lad had told the little dark fellow the whole story how his relatives had caused a search to be made for him, and perhaps, too, who his mother was, the whole interspersed with tittle-tattle and ridiculous inventions.

I knew well that the tittle-tattle of the feastings had dealt thoroughly with me who was counted a disgrace to his House.