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Tottle vs Tattle - What's the difference?

tottle | tattle |

As verbs the difference between tottle and tattle

is that tottle is (colloquial|intransitive) to walk in a wavering, unsteady manner while tattle is (pejorative) to report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.

As a noun tattle is

a tattletale.

tottle

English

Verb

(tottl)
  • (colloquial) To walk in a wavering, unsteady manner.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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