Search
Select the dictionary language
to tattle
01
to reveal someone's wrongdoing or misbehavior to others
Intransitive: to tattle | to tattle on sb
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
tattle
3rd person singular
tattles
Present participle
tattling
Past simple
tattled
Past participle
tattled
Examples
In the office, a colleague couldn't resist tattling to the supervisor about a minor mistake made by a coworker.
02
to share trivial information about someone or something
Intransitive: to tattle | to tattle about sth
Examples
The children tattled about the new student's unusual lunchbox.
Tattle
01
idle or trivial talk, often gossip or chatter that conveys little importance
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Uncountable
Plural form
tattles
Examples
The playground was full of children's tattle about their classmates.
Lexical Tree
tattler
tattling
tattle
