tittle-tattle
英語[编辑]
詞源[编辑]
tattle的重疊詞。
名詞[编辑]
tittle-tattle (可數 和 不可數，複數 tittle-tattles)
- 閒聊
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, 章號 XI, 出自 Law is a Bottomless Pit: Or, the History of John Bull, London，頁號 136:
- Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always suspected for the author of it.
- 不管是怎樣的閒話，傑克都總能知道是誰說的。
- 飛短流長
- 1777, The Tatler; Or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq, 卷 4, Dublin: W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson, editionRichard Steele所著的The Tatler n° 268 (1710)，頁號 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.
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動詞[编辑]
tittle-tattle (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 tittle-tattles，現在分詞 tittle-tattling，一般過去時及過去分詞 tittle-tattled)