tattle

FREQ #42771

n. 闲谈, 闲话, 饶舌 vi. 闲谈, 谈论, 泄露秘密 vt. 泄露

发音

UK /ˈtæt(ə)l/
AU
US /ˈtætl̩/
US /-æɾl̩/

词形变化

tattles 复数 tattled tattles 三单 tattles tattling tattling 现在分词 tattled 过去式 tattled 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A tattletale.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.

    加拿大 美国 可数 贬义 不可数
  3. 3.

    Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.

    不可数 可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To chatter; to gossip.

    不及物
  2. 2.

    Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody.

    打小报告

    加拿大 美国 贬义 不及物
  3. 3.

    To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.

    不及物 废旧

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

telling singing

上位词 3

revealing revelation disclosure
动词

同义词 10

talk sing chatter peach babble clack blab blabber prattle blab out

上位词 10

talk speak break mouth reveal discover expose utter uncover disclose

下位词 5

babble blather blether blither smatter

近义相关 2

talk spill

相关短语

tattle tell tattle tells

词源

From Middle Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to babble, chatter”) (modern Dutch tatelen, tateren (“to talk, chatter”)), originally imitative. The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian tätelje (“to talk nonsense, babble”), Middle Low German tāteren, tadderen (“to babble, chatter”) (whence modern German Low German tatern (“to chatter”)), Low German tateln, täteln (“to cackle, gabble”). Compare also Middle English dadel, dadull (“tattling, gossip”), and its alteration twaddle.

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