to tattle a secret

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• tattle-tale — UK US noun [countable] [singular tattle tale plural tattle tales] american informal a telltale Thesaurus: people who tell secrets …   Useful english dictionary

• tattle — [tat′ l] vi. tattled, tattling [LME tattlen, prob. < MDu tatelen, of echoic orig.] 1. to talk idly; chatter; gossip 2. to reveal other people s secrets; tell tales 3. to inform against someone vt. to reveal (a secret) through gossiping n. idle …   English World dictionary

• tattle — Synonyms and related words: babble, back fence gossip, be indiscreet, be unguarded, bear witness against, betray, betray a confidence, blab, blabber, blather, blether, blow the whistle, blurt, blurt out, buzz, chatter, chitchat, clatter, cry,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• tattle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. prattle, prate; chat[ter]; jabber, talk, gossip; reveal (a secret), inform, peach (inf.), tell on, tell tales, blab (sl.), spill the beans (sl.). See accusation, disclosure. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

• tattle — tat•tle [[t]ˈtæt l[/t]] v. tled, tling, n. 1) to tell something secret or private about another, often out of spite 2) to chatter, prate, or gossip 3) to utter idly; disclose by gossiping 4) phv tattle on, to betray by tattling 5) the act of… …   From formal English to slang

• tattle-tale —    Used of a person who cannot keep a secret. The term is used by an American speaker in Except for Me and Thee, by Jessamyn West. The variant ‘Tell tale tattle’ is used by one girl to another in Girl with Green Eyes, by Edna O’Brien.    Other… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• let the cat out of the bag — verb divulge confidential information or secrets Be careful his secretary talks • Syn: ↑spill the beans, ↑talk, ↑tattle, ↑blab, ↑peach, ↑babble, ↑sing, ↑babble out, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• spill the beans — verb divulge confidential information or secrets Be careful his secretary talks • Syn: ↑let the cat out of the bag, ↑talk, ↑tattle, ↑blab, ↑peach, ↑babble, ↑sing, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

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• babble — Synonyms and related words: Aesopian language, Babel, Greek, absurdity, amphigory, argot, babblement, baffle, balderdash, bavardage, be Greek to, be beyond one, be indiscreet, be insane, be too deep, be unguarded, beat one, betray, betray a… …   Moby Thesaurus

• blab — I blab, blabber (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. babble, chatter; tattle, gossip. See loquacity, disclosure. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To reveal] Syn. disclose, tell, divulge, give away; see inform 2 , reveal 1 . 2. [To chatter] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students