英语
词源
tattle的重叠词。
名词
tittle-tattle（可数 & 不可数，复数 tittle-tattles）
- 闲聊
- 1712，John Arbuthnot， chapter XI，出自 Law is a Bottomless Pit: Or, the History of John Bull，London, 页号136:
- Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always suspected for the author of it.
- 不管是怎样的闲话，杰克都总能知道是谁说的。
- 飞短流长
- 1777， The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq，卷号4，Dublin:W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson，edition，译自The Tatler n° 268 (1710)，译者Richard Steele, 页号324:
- If I can once extirpate the race of solid and substantial humdrums, I hope by my wholesome and repeated advices, quickly to reduce the insignificant tittle-tattles and matter-of-fact-men that abound in every quarter of this great city.
- （请为本引文添加中文翻译）
动词
tittle-tattle（第三人称单数简单现在时 tittle-tattles，现在分词 tittle-tattling，一般过去时及过去分词 tittle-tattled）
