tittle-tattle
noun/ˈtɪtl tætl/
/ˈtɪtl tætl/
[uncountable] (informal, disapproving)- unimportant talk, usually not true, about other people and their lives synonym gossip
- The story was nothing more than idle tittle-tattle.
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