tittle-tattle

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: tit=tle-tat=tle

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.

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.