tittle-tattle
Collocations
3ADJ.
idle
VERB + TITTLE-TATTLE
pestered
PREP.
about
Definitions
noun
Petty, idle gossip.
Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]
She has trouble enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby.
An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.
verb
To engage in gossip.
‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’
To spread gossip.
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4Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]
WiktionaryShe has trouble enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby.
WiktionaryAnd, when rumours about him surfaced in the form of insinuating magazine articles demanding to know why he hadn’t found a wife yet, his wily agent Henry Willson made sure that none of them stuck, even
Wiktionary‘I hope you two have been mewed in with that old pussy long enough. While you’ve been tittle-tattling I’ve been doing, — listen to what this bobby’s got to say.’
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