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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Tittle-tattle \Tit"tle-tat`tle\, n. [A reduplication of tattle.]
1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. --Arbuthnot.
2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. [R.] --Tatler.
Tittle-tattle \Tit"tle-tat`tle\, v. i.
To talk idly; to prate. --Shak.
资料来源 : WordNet®
tittle-tattle
n : light informal conversation for social occasions [syn: {chitchat},
{small talk}, {gab}, {gabfest}, {gossip}, {chin-wag}, {chin-wagging},
{causerie}]
v : speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
[syn: {chatter}, {piffle}, {palaver}, {prate}, {twaddle},
{clack}, {maunder}, {prattle}, {blab}, {gibber}, {tattle},
{blabber}, {gabble}]