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Rattles vs Tattles - What's the difference?

rattles | tattles |

As verbs the difference between rattles and tattles

is that rattles is (rattle) while tattles is (tattle).

As a noun rattles

is .

rattles

English

Verb

(head)
  • (rattle)

    • Noun

    (head)

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    tattles

    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