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Blab vs Tattle - What's the difference?

blab | tattle |

As verbs the difference between blab and tattle

is that blab is (ambitransitive) to tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion while tattle is (pejorative) to report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.

As nouns the difference between blab and tattle

is that blab is one who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper while tattle is a tattletale.

blab

English

Verb

  • (ambitransitive) To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion.
  • * Tennyson
    • And yonder a vile physician blabbing / The case of his patient.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale; a gossip or gossiper.

    • Related terms

    * blabber * blabbermouth * blabby * blubber

    tattle

    English

    Verb

  • (pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
  • To chatter.
  • * 1599 ,
    • BEATRICE. He were an excellent man that were made just in the mid-way between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image, and says nothing; and the other too like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling .
  • * Dryden
    • the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative

    Synonyms

    * blow the whistle, rat on, sing, snitch, squeal * gossip; see also

    Noun

    (-)
  • A tattletale.
  • Gossip; idle talk.

    • Related terms

    * tattletale