tattling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of tattle

noun

1. The speech of one who tattles.

   “Peace your tattlings!”

   “[…] that chaste and sober widow […] coming to Thy church, not for idle tattlings and old wives’ fables, but that she might hear Thee in Thy discourses […]”

   “[…] we could have a glorious and radiant world here and now, a bright and happy world! There would be joy and gladness and singing in it, with plenty of work for everyone, but it would all be happy work; there would be no bad tempers, or tattlings, or scoldings, or ox beating, or ugliness.”