Word Meanings - TITTLE-TATTLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot. 2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Tatler.

Related words: (words related to TITTLE-TATTLE)

• EMPTY
  æmtig, æmetig, fr. æmta, æmetta, quiet, leisure, rest; of uncertain 1. Containing nothing; not holding or having anything within; void of contents or appropriate contents; not filled; -- said of an inclosure, as a box, room, house, etc.; as,
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• GOSSIPRY
  1. Spiritual relationship or affinity; gossiprede; special intimacy. Bale. 2. Idle talk; gossip. Mrs. Browning.
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• PRATTLE
  To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk. (more info) Etym:
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• GOSSIPY
  Full of, or given to, gossip.
• GOSSIPER
  One given to gossip. Beaconsfield.
• GOSSIPREDE
  The relationship between a person and his sponsors.
• TALKER
  1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist. There probably were never four talkers more admirable in four different ways than Johnson, Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. Macaulay.
• PRATTLEMENT
  Prattle. Jeffrey.
• GOSSIP
  baptism, a relation by a religious obligation, AS. godsibb, fr. god + sib alliance, relation; akin to G. sippe, Goth. sibja, and also to 1. A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother. Should a great lady that was invited to be a gossip, in her place
• PRATTLER
  One who prattles. Herbert.
• STALKER
  1. One who stalks. 2. A kind of fishing net.
• DEERSTALKER
  One who practices deerstalking.
• OVEREMPTY
  To make too empty; to exhaust. Carew.
• KEMP; KEMPTY
  Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.
• PRITTLE-PRATTLE
  Empty talk; trifling loquacity; prattle; -- used in contempt or ridicule. Abp. Bramhall.