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English
Etymology
tattle + tale
Pronunciation
Adjective
tattletale (not comparable)
- telltale; giveaway
Translations
Noun
tattletale (plural tattletales)
- One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.
- Synonyms: tattler, whistle-blower, narc, snitch; see also Thesaurus:informant
- One who gossips, often for the sake of attention.
- Synonyms: gossip, rumourmonger; see also Thesaurus:gossiper
Translations
one who gossips
- Azerbaijani: qeybətçi, xəbərçi
- Bashkir: ғәйбәтсе (ğəybətse), ошаҡсы (oşaqsı)
- Dutch: roddelaar (nl) m, roddelaarster (nl) f
- Esperanto: klaĉemulino, klaĉemulo
- French: commère (fr) f
- German: Klatschbase (de) f, Quasselstrippe (de) f, Quatschtüte f, Schwätzer (de) m / Schwätzerin (de) f, Tratschtante (de) f
- Italian: pettegolo (it) m, pettegola (it) f
- Russian: спле́тник (ru) m (splétnik), спле́тница (ru) f (splétnica), болту́н (ru) m (boltún), болту́нья (ru) f (boltúnʹja), болту́шка (ru) f (boltúška)
- Spanish: chismoso (es) m, hocicón (es) m, gacetilla (es)
- Swedish: skvallertant c, sladdertacka c
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Verb
tattletale (third-person singular simple present tattletales, present participle tattletaling, simple past and past participle tattletaled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To act as a tattletale; to tell on; to give away, reveal, or expose.