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tittle-tattles

tittle-tattles is the plural of tittle-tattle.

Meaning of tittle-tattle

Noun

tittle-tattle (countable and uncountable, plural tittle-tattles)

  1. (uncountable) Petty, idle gossip.
    • Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]1733, Humphry Polesworth [pseudonym; John Arbuthnot], Alexander Pope, compiler, “Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, The History of John Bull. […]. The Second Part. Chapter XI.”, in Miscellanies, 2nd...
  2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
    • If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.1777, The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, volume 4, Dublin: W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson, edition of The Tatler n° 268 (1710) by Richard Steele, page 324

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Questions about tittle-tattles

What is tittle-tattles the plural of?
Tittle-tattles is the plural of tittle-tattle.

Words near tittle-tattles in the dictionary

  1. tittle
  2. tittle-tattle
  3. tittle-tattled
  4. tittle-tattler
  5. tittle-tattlers
  6. tittle-tattles
  7. tittle-tattling
  8. tittle-tattlings
  9. tittlebat
  10. tittlebats
  11. tittled

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