tattling
English
Verb
tattling
Noun
tattling (plural tattlings)
- The speech of one who tattles.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
- Peace your tattlings!
- 1859, John Baillie, St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir, New York: Robert Carter & Bros., Chapter 13, p. 112,[2]
- […] 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, Clearing in the West, Toronto: Thomas Allen, Chapter 13,[3]
- […] 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.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]