Thesaurus:tattle
English
Noun
Sense: idle talk about someone else's private or personal business
Synonyms
- clatfart (dialect)
- goss (slang)
- gossip [⇒ thesaurus]
- gossipry
- labrish (Jamaica)
- scuttlebutt
- skeet (Isle of Man)
- tale
- tattle
- tidbit (archaic)
- tittle-tattle
- twittle-twattle (archaic)
Hypernyms
Holonyms
Various
- gossip column
- hoax
- indiscretion
- lie [⇒ thesaurus]
- rumour
- slander [⇒ thesaurus]
- scandal sheet
- slambook
- tab
- tabloid
- yellow press
See also
- Thesaurus:gossip (verb)
- Thesaurus:gossiper (noun, person)
Further reading
- “588. conversation” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “tattle” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.