0 to secretly tell someone in authority, especially a teacher, that someone else has done something bad, often in order to cause trouble: --
Did you tattle on us to the teacher?
He did not wish to "tattle" on anybody, and, besides, not having a forward nature, he shrank from the exposure.
I sat myself quietly in the corner to await the return of the parents, and listen to the tattle of the children.
They played about his feet; they chirped, hopped, and tattled; they peered side-ways at him and gave him jerky nods of greeting.
He thought he would get so far away that the dog could not go back to the village and tattle.
She collected all the scandal, all the stories, all the tattle, all the suspicions.
In this incident, there is a chain of tattling to authority figures.
Hey, allies: it's your responsibility to tattle.
They tattle when he opens the refrigerator.
