tittle-tattle
英语[编辑]
词源[编辑]
tattle的重叠词。
名词[编辑]
tittle-tattle (可数 和 不可数，复数 tittle-tattles)
- 闲聊
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, 章号 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 4, Dublin: W. Whitestone, W. Watson, J. Williams, W. Wilson, editionRichard Steele所著的The Tatler n° 268 (1710)，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.
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动词[编辑]
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)