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English
Verb
tattling
- present participle and gerund of tattle
Noun
tattling (plural tattlings)
- The speech of one who tattles.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Peace your tattlings!
1859, John Baillie, chapter 13, in St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir, New York: Robert Carter & Bros, page 112:[…] 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, chapter 13, in Clearing in the West, Toronto: Thomas Allen:[…] 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.
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