tattleverb [ I ]
uk/ˈtæt.əl/us/ˈtæt̬.əl/USto secretly tell someone in authority, especially a teacher, that someone else has done something bad, often in order to cause trouble:
Did you tattle on us to the teacher?
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- -tongued
- babel
- blab
- blather
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- hold the floor idiom
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- rabbit on
- sink to a whisper idiom
- telegrammatic
- throw
- undertone
- waffle
- whisper
- yap
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