different between tattle vs divulge

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to babble, chatter”), originally imitative. The word is cognate with Low German tateln, täteln (“to cackle, gabble”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæt(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tætl?/, /-?l?/
• Hyphenation: tat?tle

Verb

tattle (third-person singular simple present tattles, present participle tattling, simple past and past participle tattled)

1. (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
3. (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. [from late 15th c.]
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.

Synonyms

• (to chatter): see Thesaurus:prattle
• (to report incriminating information or wrongdoing): see Thesaurus:rat out

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

tattle (countable and uncountable, plural tattles)

1. (countable) A tattletale.
2. (countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
3. (uncountable) Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.

Synonyms

• (tattletale): telltale tit; see Thesaurus:informant or Thesaurus:gossiper
• (idle talk): see Thesaurus:tattle or Thesaurus:chatter

Translations

See also

• snitches get stitches
• twattle

References

Further reading

• gossip on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

Latin divulgare, from di- (“widely”) + vulgare (“publish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da??v?ld?/, /d??v?ld?/

Verb

divulge (third-person singular simple present divulges, present participle divulging, simple past and past participle divulged)

1. (transitive) To make public or known; to communicate to the public; to tell (information, especially a secret) so that it may become generally known
   • 2016, December 8, The Economist, The president-elect's EPA head may not believe in climate change

     In an interview with The Economist last year, he insisted his attack on the CPP had nothing to do with his views on global warming, which he would not divulge.

   • 1910, Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, "How to Avoid Getting Married"

     Here then is a letter from a young man whose name I must not reveal, but whom I will designate as D. F., and whose address I must not divulge, but will simply indicate as Q. Street, West.

   Synonym: disclose

2. To indicate publicly; to proclaim.

Synonyms

• bewray, bring out, uncover, disclose, discover, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, reveal; see also Thesaurus:divulge

Related terms

• divulgation
• divulgement

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