tittle-tattle(n = noun.communication) causerie, chin wag, chin wagging, chin-wag, chin-wagging, chit chat, chit-chat, chitchat, gab, gabfest, gossip, small talk - light informal conversation for social occasions;
is a kind of chat, confab, confabulation, schmoose, schmooze
Derived form verb tittle-tattle₁

   tittle-tattle(v = verb.communication) blab, blabber, chatter, clack, gabble, gibber, maunder, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, tattle, twaddle - speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly;
is one way to mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Derived form noun tittle-tattle₁
Sample sentences: Sam and Sue tittle-tattle

1.  Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]

2.  An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Tatler. [1913 Webster]

   To talk idly; to prate. Shak. [1913 Webster]

tittle-tattle, n. & v.
--n. petty gossip.
--v.intr. gossip, chatter.

Etymology:
redupl. of TATTLE

N  conversation, interlocution, collocution, colloquy, converse, confabulation, talk, discourse, verbal intercourse, oral communication, commerce, dialogue, duologue, trialogue, causerie, chat, chitchat, small talk, table talk, teatable talk, town talk, village talk, idle talk, tattle, gossip, tittle-tattle, babble, babblement, tripotage, cackle, prittle-prattle, cancan, on dit, talk of the town, talk of the village, conference, parley, interview, audience, pourparler, tete-a-tete, reception, conversazione, congress, powwow, hall of audience, durbar, palaver, debate, logomachy, war of words, gossip, tattler, Paul Pry, tabby, chatterer, interlocutor, conversationist, dialogist, the feast of reason and the flow of soul, mollia tempora fandi, conversing, interlocutory, conversational, conversable, discursive, discoursive, chatty, colloquial, with thee conversing I forget all time.