Definition of "tattling"

Peace your tattlings!

c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

[…] that chaste and sober widow […] coming to Thy church, not for idle tattlings and old wives’ fables, but that she might hear Thee in Thy discourses […]

1859, John Baillie, chapter 13, in St. Augustine: A Biographical Memoir‎, New York: Robert Carter & Bros, page 112

[…] we could have a glorious and radiant world here and now, a bright and happy world! There would be joy and gladness and singing in it, with plenty of work for everyone, but it would all be happy work; there would be no bad tempers, or tattlings, or scoldings, or ox beating, or ugliness.

1935, Nellie McClung, chapter 13, in Clearing in the West‎, Toronto: Thomas Allen