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cafarder — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • tattle verb To gossip or chatter, especially about other people's business.

Senses

cafarder is used for these senses in English:

  • tattle (intransitive, Canada, US, pejorative) Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing in an annoying fashion, usually to a person in a position of authority over the accused person; to tell on somebody. [from late 15th c.]

tattle — full definition

  1. verb To gossip or chatter, especially about other people's business.
  2. verb (especially of children) To report someone else's misbehaviour to an adult or authority figure.
  3. noun Idle gossip, or a piece of tale-telling about someone's wrongdoing.

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