different between rattling vs tattling

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

rattling (comparative more rattling, superlative most rattling)

1. Lively, quick (speech, pace).
2. (dated, intensifier) good, fine.
   • I'd like nothing better this minute, said Mr Browne stoutly, than a rattling fine walk in the country or a fast drive with a good spanking goer between the shafts.

Verb

rattling

1. present participle of rattle

Noun

rattling (plural rattlings)

1. rattle (a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one another)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

rattling (plural rattlings)

1. (nautical) Alternative form of ratline

English

Verb

tattling

1. present participle of tattle

Noun

tattling (plural tattlings)

1. The speech of one who tattles.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     Peace your tattlings!

   • 1859, John Baillie, St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir, New York: Robert Carter & Bros., Chapter 13, p. 112,^[2]

     […] that chaste and sober widow […] coming to Thy church, not for idle tattlings and old wives’ fables, but that she might hear Thee in Thy discourses […]

   • 1935, Nellie McClung, Clearing in the West, Toronto: Thomas Allen, Chapter 13,^[3]

     […] we could have a glorious and radiant world here and now, a bright and happy world! There would be joy and gladness and singing in it, with plenty of work for everyone, but it would all be happy work; there would be no bad tempers, or tattlings, or scoldings, or ox beating, or ugliness.