VERB
- speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
NOUN
- light informal conversation for social occasions
How To Use tittle-tattle In A Sentence
- Most political diaries are written by politicians themselves but this one records the daily political tittle-tattle told to a wife over the dinner table and is therefore more revealing.
- Thanks for your company on this marathon day of tittle-tattle. Transfer window deadline day 2012 – as it happened
- Like so much of what's been reported about Lorna Moon, it was largely codswallop, the tittle-tattle of small town gossips.
- Whatever one's views, it's great to rediscover the ability to animate politics through a discussion of ideas rather than personality or passing tittle-tattle.
- Not so if it's just so much tittle-tattle about essentially private affairs. News of the World vs. WikiLeaks
- Tory loyalists pushed out in front of the TV cameras have dismissed this as "tittle-tattle". David Cameron will plough on with the health plan at his peril | Andrew Rawnsley
- There was some tittle-tattle a few weeks back that eBay was interested in buying the company.
- They are tittle-tattle, nothing remotely important.
- I reckon the gossip surrounding her breasts is just that - idle tittle-tattle.
- In an age of lurid, kiss-and-tell celebrity tittle-tattle, the gentle contours of a smoothly flowing career and the discreet details of a happy, lasting marriage are hardly the material of a bestseller.