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tattle
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)
- (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
- (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.]
- (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)
- (countable) A tattletale.
- (countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
- (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
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prate
English
Etymology
From Middle English praten; related to Dutch praten (“to talk, chat”), Low German praten, Danish prate, Swedish prata (“to talk, prate”), Faroese práta (“to talk, gossip”), Icelandic prata; all ultimately from Proto-Germanic *prattuz (“idle or boastful talk, deceit”), from Proto-Indo-European *brodno- (“to wander, rove”). Cognate with Polish bredzi? (“to rave, jabber”), Latvian brad?t (“to talk nonsense”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /p?e?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
prate (countable and uncountable, plural prates)
- Talk to little purpose; trifling talk; unmeaningful loquacity.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
prate (third-person singular simple present prates, present participle prating, simple past and past participle prated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly.
- Synonyms: blabber; see also Thesaurus:prattle, Thesaurus:chatter
- What nonsense would the fool, thy master, prate, / When thou, his knave, canst talk at such a rate!
Translations
References
- prate, in Compact Oxford English Dictionary.
- prate, in The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language.
Anagrams
- Peart, Petra, apert, apter, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
prate
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of praten
Anagrams
- pater
Norwegian Bokmål
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pr??t?/
Verb
prate (imperative prat, present tense prater, passive prates, simple past and past participle prata or pratet, present participle pratende)
- to chat (om / about)
Derived terms
- pratsom
References
- “prate” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pra?t?/
Verb
prate
- to talk
Inflection
Further reading
- “prate”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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