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Tattled vs Tatted - What's the difference?

tattled | tatted |

As verbs the difference between tattled and tatted

is that tattled is past tense of tattle while tatted is past tense of tat.

tattled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (tattle)

    • 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

    tatted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (tat)

    • tat

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
  • Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
  • (India) Gunnycloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius or jute.
  • (slang) A tattoo.

    • Verb

  • (intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (India, dated) A pony.
    • (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * rat-a-tat-tat * tit for tat * tatt * tatting * tatty

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