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я́бедничать — meaning in English

yabednichat

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English meaning

  • peach noun A soft, juicy fruit with fuzzy yellow-red skin and a large single stone, grown on the Prunus persica tree.
  • tattle verb To gossip or chatter, especially about other people's business.

Senses

я́бедничать is used for these senses in English:

  • peach (intransitive, obsolete) To inform on someone; turn informer.
  • 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.]
  • tell on (usually childish) To inform on, to rat out; to tell a person in authority that someone else has done something wrong.

peach — full definition

  1. noun A soft, juicy fruit with fuzzy yellow-red skin and a large single stone, grown on the Prunus persica tree.
  2. noun A pale yellowish-pink color resembling the fruit's skin.
  3. noun Informal: a particularly pleasing or likeable person or thing.
  4. verb British slang: to inform on someone, especially to the police.

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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