different between tattling vs wattling

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.

English

Etymology

wattle +? -ing

Noun

wattling (countable and uncountable, plural wattlings)

1. An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle.
   • 1952, L. F. Salzman, Building in England (page 188)

     Wattling consists of a row of upright stakes the spaces between which are more or less filled by interweaving small branches, hazel rods, osiers, reeds, thin strips of wood, or other pliant material.

2. The act of making such a mesh.