TATTLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tattling mean? 

• TATTLING (adjective)
  The adjective TATTLING has 1 sense:

1. prone to communicate confidential information

  Familiarity information: TATTLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TATTLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Prone to communicate confidential information

Synonyms:

blabbermouthed; leaky; talebearing; tattling

Similar:

communicative; communicatory (able or tending to communicate)

 Context examples 

Well, they can eat beef and bread and butter, if they are hungry, only it's mortifying to have to spend your whole morning for nothing, thought Jo, as she rang the bell half an hour later than usual, and stood, hot, tired, and dispirited, surveying the feast spread before Laurie, accustomed to all sorts of elegance, and Miss Crocker, whose tattling tongue would report them far and wide.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)