tattlery (tatler i)

[ talk or chat. tattling (tat'ling), p. a. [Ppr. of tattle, v.] Given to idle talk; apt to tell tales; tale-bearing. Fal . She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Mrs. Ford. Pray you, do so: she's a very tattling woman. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 3. 99. Excuse it by the tattling quality of age, which... is always narrative. Dryden, Ded. to tr. of Juvenal. tattlingly (tat'ling-li), adv . In a tattling or telltale manner.