Crossword clues for tattling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tattling \Tat"tling\, a. Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales. -- Tat"tling*ly, adv.
Tattle \Tat"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tattled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tattling.] [Akin to OE. tateren, LG. tateln, D. tateren to stammer, and perhaps to E. titter.]
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To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
The tattling quality of age, which is always narrative.
--Dryden. To tell tales; to communicate secrets; to be a talebearer; as, a tattling girl.
Wiktionary
n. The speech of one who tattles. vb. (present participle of tattle English)
WordNet
adj. prone to communicate confidential information [syn: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)]
Usage examples of "tattling".
The gods know among how many people Bibulus has been busy, tattling the story of my affair with King Nicomedes.
First, because it makes their tattling more effective and more harassing, since we cannot doubt what they tell us.
I felt only animosity toward the tattling, tag-a-long brat, and yet I could not leave him there to face the cold awakening he deserved.
Mrs Winkworth that Bath was a hotbed of scandal, warning her, with his ready laugh, that it was enough for an unattached gentleman to offer his arm to a single lady for the length of a street to set all the quizzies tattling that he was dangling after her.
Infamous of me to laugh, when the tattling wretch who wrote that ridiculous farrago has been the cause of your being put to so much pain and inconvenience!
Jasper and Flint were having one of those long, drawn-out fights where they actually got nasty, which sometimes included tattling, even though Mama punished the tale-teller as well as the person ratted on.
He still paid her housekeeping although she did not keep house, dividing her time between tattling with her friends, television, the cinema and the bingo hall.