Usually means: Informing on others; often pejorative.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. tattle: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tattle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tattle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tattle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tattle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tattle, tattle: Wordnik
  7. tattle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tattle: Wiktionary
  9. tattle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tattle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tattle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tattle: Dictionary.com
  13. tattle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Tattle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. tattle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. tattle: Rhymezone
  17. Tattle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. tattle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Tattle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  20. tattle: Free Dictionary
  21. tattle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tattle: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tattle: Legal dictionary

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  1. tattle: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tattle: A Word A Day
  2. tattle: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tattle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tattle: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tattled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To chatter; to gossip.
verb:  (intransitive, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter.
noun:  (countable) A tattletale.
noun:  (countable, Canada, US, derogatory) Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person.
noun:  (uncountable) Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip.

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