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tittimouse |
tittivate |
tittivation |
tittle |
tittle tattle |
tittle-tattle
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| tittlebat
| tittup
| tittuppy
| titty
tittle-tattle
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun tittle-tattle has 1 sense
- tittle-tattle(n = noun.communication) causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk - light informal conversation for social occasions; Array is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze
Derived form verb tittle-tattle1
Verb tittle-tattle has 1 sense
- tittle-tattle(v = verb.communication) blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, twaddle - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; Array is one way to mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Derived form noun tittle-tattle1
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue tittle-tattle
CIDE DICTIONARY
tittle-tattle, n. [A reduplication of tattle.].
- Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
- An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Tatler. [1913 Webster]
tittle-tattle, v. i.
To talk idly; to prate. Shak. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tittle-tattle, n. & v.
--n. petty gossip.
--v.intr. gossip, chatter.
--n. petty gossip.
--v.intr. gossip, chatter.
Etymology
redupl. of TATTLE
ROGET THESAURUS
tittle-tattle
Conversation
N conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.
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