Twattle vs Tattle - What's the difference?
twattle | 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 twattle and tattle
is that twattle is (archaic) to talk in a digressive or long-winded way or twattle can be (archaic|transitive) to make much of, as a domestic animal; to pet 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.tattle
English
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