Tattoed vs Tattled - What's the difference?
tattoed | tattled |
(nonstandard) (tattoo)
An image made in the skin with ink and a needle.
A method of decorating the skin by inserting colored substances under the surface. The skin is punctured with a sharp instrument, which now is usually a solenoid-driven needle, that carries the inks to lower layers of the skin.
To apply a tattoo to (someone or something).
(baseball) To hit the ball hard, as if to figuratively leave a tattoo on the ball.
(nautical) A signal played five minutes before taps (lights out).
A signal by drum or bugle ordering soldiers to return to their quarters.
A military display or pageant.
(tattle)
(pejorative) To report others' wrongdoings or violations; to tell on somebody; to gossip or to disclose incriminating information.
To chatter.
* 1599 ,
* Dryden
A tattletale.
Gossip; idle talk.
As verbs the difference between tattoed and tattled
is that tattoed is past tense of tattoo while tattled is past tense of tattle.tattoed
English
Verb
(head)tattoo
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia tattoo) (en noun)Verb
- Jones tattoos one into the gap in left; that will clear the bases.
Derived terms
* tatt * tattoo artist * tattoo parlour *Etymology 2
From (etyl) taptoe.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 3
From (etyl) tatt? .tattled
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Verb
(head)tattle
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Verb
- 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 .
- the tattling quality of age, which is always narrative