chatting vs tattle

chatting

noun
  • Talk; chatter. 

tattle

noun
  • Idle talk; gossip; (countable) an instance of such talk or gossip. 

  • A tattletale. 

  • Often said of children: a piece of incriminating information or an account of wrongdoing that is said about another person. 

verb
  • To chatter; to gossip. 

  • Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. 

How often have the words chatting and tattle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )