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From tattle + tale.
tattletale (not comparable)
- telltale; giveaway
tattletale (plural tattletales)
- One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.
- Synonyms: tattler, whistle-blower, narc, snitch; see also Thesaurus:informant
- One who gossips, often for the sake of attention.
- Synonyms: gossip, rumourmonger; see also Thesaurus:gossiper
one who tattles
- Azerbaijani: xəbərçi
- Bashkir: ошаҡсы (oşaqsı)
- Cebuano: sumbongero
- Dutch: klikspaan (nl) m or f
- Finnish: juorukello (fi)
- French: cafteur (fr) m, cafteuse (fr) f
- German: Petze (de) f, Verpetzer m, Verpfeifer m, Anschwärzer m
- Latin: gestor (la) m
- Persian: چغل (fa) (čoğol)
- Plautdietsch: Pludadoos f
- Polish: skarżypyta (pl) m or f
- Portuguese: alcaguete (pt) m or f, delator (pt) m, dedo-duro (pt) m or f
- Russian: я́беда (ru) m or f (jábeda)
- Spanish: acusica (es) f or m, cuentero (es) m, soplón (es) m, hocicón (es) m, correveidile (es)
- Swedish: skvallerbytta (sv)
- Turkish: gammaz (tr), ispiyoncu (tr)
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one who gossips
- Azerbaijani: qeybətçi, xəbərçi
- Bashkir: ғәйбәтсе (ğəybətse), ошаҡсы (oşaqsı)
- Dutch: roddelaar (nl) m, roddelaarster (nl) f
- Esperanto: klaĉemulino, klaĉemulo
- French: commère (fr) f
- German: Klatschbase (de) f, Quasselstrippe (de) f, Quatschtüte f, Schwätzer (de) m / Schwätzerin (de) f, Tratschtante (de) f
- Italian: pettegolo (it) m, pettegola (it) f
- Portuguese: fofoqueiro (pt) m, mexeriqueiro (pt) m
- Russian: спле́тник (ru) m (splétnik), спле́тница (ru) f (splétnica), болту́н (ru) m (boltún), болту́нья (ru) f (boltúnʹja), болту́шка (ru) f (boltúška)
- Spanish: chismoso (es) m, hocicón (es) m, gacetilla (es)
- Swedish: skvallertant (sv) c, sladdertacka (sv) c
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tattletale (third-person singular simple present tattletales, present participle tattletaling, simple past and past participle tattletaled)
- (ambitransitive) To act as a tattletale; to tell on; to give away, reveal, or expose.
