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tattle on

tattle on verb: synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”).

Verb

tattle on (third-person singular simple present tattles on, present participle tattling on, simple past and past participle tattled on)

  1. Synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”)
    Synonyms:
    finger

Synonyms of tattle on

Forms of tattle on

third-person singular presenttattles on
present participletattling on
past participletattled on
pasttattled on

Questions about tattle on

What does tattle on mean?
Tattle on means synonym of finger (“to report to or identify for the authorities; to inform on”).
What part of speech is tattle on?
Tattle on is a verb.
What is the past tense of tattle on?
The past tense of tattle on is tattled on.

Words near tattle on in the dictionary

  1. tatting
  2. tatting up
  3. tattings
  4. tattis
  5. tattle
  6. tattle on
  7. tattle tell
  8. tattle tells
  9. tattled
  10. tattler
  11. tattlers

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