different between twattle vs tattle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tw?t?l/

Etymology 1

Compare tattle, twaddle.

Verb

twattle (third-person singular simple present twattles, present participle twattling, simple past and past participle twattled)

1. (archaic, transitive, intransitive) To talk in a digressive or long-winded way.

Derived terms

• betwattled

Noun

twattle

1. (archaic) Chatter; twaddle.

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Verb

twattle (third-person singular simple present twattles, present participle twattling, simple past and past participle twattled)

1. (archaic, transitive) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) To make much of; to pet or coddle.

Etymology 3

Noun

twattle (plural twattles)

1. (archaic) A dwarf.

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