Reverse Dictionary: TATTLE

TATTLE, TATTLER, TATTLETALE, TATTLING

(also see TALEBEARER, TELLTALE)

ADJECTIVES
1719TITTLE-TATTLE addicted to tattling; gossiping
1808 GABBIT loquacious, talkative, tattling; impudent, impertinent → Sc.


NOUNS
1950 MOCKINGBIRD TALE loose tattle of one who receives a bit of scandal in confidence, and proceeds to broadcast it → Amer. dial.


NOUNS, PERSON
 BLAB an open-mouthed person; one who has not sufficient control over his tongue; a revealer of secrets or of what ought to be kept private; a babbler, a tattler, a telltale …c1374
 BLABBER one who blabs; one who reveals secrets; a telltale; a tattler …1557
 BLABBERER one who reveals secrets; a telltale, a tattler …c1375
 BUSY-LICKUM a gossip, a tattletale …1990s W. Indies sl.
 CACKLE one who chats or gossips; a telltale, tattler, or blabber; one who divulges a secret …a1225 sl.
 CACKLER one who chats or gossips; a talkative person; a telltale, tattler, or blabber; one who divulges a secret …a1400 sl.
 GAB a loquacious speaker; a tattler, a chatterbox; one who talks too much or too loudly  …1822 Sc.
 GABBIE a loquacious speaker; a tattler, a chatterbox …1841 Sc.
 GABBOCK a loquacious speaker; a tattler, a chatterbox …1866 Sc.
 HAKE a forward, tattling woman …Bk1905 Sc.
 LAB a chatterbox, a tattler; one who cannot keep a secret …c1386 obs. exc. Eng. dial
 LABICAN a gossip, a tattler, a busybody …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
 LAB-O’-THE-TONGUE a chatterbox, tattler; one who cannot keep a secret …1746 Eng. dial.
 NARC;  NARK a tattletale …1976 Amer. sl.
 NEWS PACKER a tattletale, a gossip …1983 Amer. dial.
 SCLAVE a gossip; one who tittle-tattles; a scandal-monger …1969 Sc.
 TABBY an old or elderly maiden lady; an old maid; sometimes applied to any spiteful or ill-natured female gossip or tattler …1761 
 TALE PACKER a tattletale, a gossip …1939 Amer. dial.
 TALE-PIE a telltale; an informer; a tattler …Bk1855 Eng. dial.
 TALE-PYET a telltale, a talebearer, one who divulges secrets; an informer, a tattler …1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– TITIVIL a mischievous talebearer; a tattling telltale …1523 obs.
 TITTERER a tattler, a telltale …1377 obs.
– TITTLE-GOOSE a foolish, tattling person; a telltale, a foolish blab …1807 Eng. dial.
 TITTLER one who tattles; a whisperer, a telltale, a talebearer; a gossip …1399 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
 TITTLE-TATTLE a habitual tattler; one given up to gossip; esp. a woman so addicted …1580 obs.
 TITTLE-TATTLER one addicted to tattling; an idle talker, a gossip …1600
– TWITTLE-TWAT a chatterer, one who talks nonsense; a tattler, a babbler …1662 obs. rare
 WHIFFER a tattletale …1952 Amer. dial.


VERBS
 BLATE to tattle …1905 Amer. dial.
 BLEAT to tattle …1905 Amer. dial.
 CALL to tattle, to gossip, to spread reports; to run about idly …1872 Sc. & Eng. dial.
 CALL CLASHES to spread malicious reports, to gossip, to tattle …Bk1898 Sc.
 DIDDLE to tattle, to gossip …1810 Eng. dial.
 PACK NEWS to gossip; to tattle; to tell tales …1903 Amer. dial.
 PACK TALES to gossip, to tattle, to tell tales …1950 Amer. dial.
 PEACH to tell or tattle; to give information …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 PIMP to snoop, to sneak, to tattle, to inform on …1851 Amer. dial.
 SCLAVE to spread a story though gossip or tittle-tattle; to rumour-monger; spec. of malicious rumours, to slander, to defame, to calumniate …1825 Sc.
 SQUEAL to turn informer; to tattle …1846 sl.
 SWITCH to tell or tattle; to give information …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
 TAT to gossip, to tattle …1953 Amer. dial.
 TATTER to chatter; to tattle …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
 TATTERTALE to tattle …2005 Amer. dial.