talingn.
Now rare.
Telling of tales, talking, gossiping; also, a tale.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > gossiping
taling1382
susurrationa1425
trattlinga1425
tittlinga1450
tattlea1529
tittle-tattlea1529
tittle-tattlinga1586
news-making1707
gossiping1712
gossipry1818
gossipred1828
anecdoting1845
calleting1905
hen-cackle1907
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling
taling1382
storyingc1449
narrationc1450
tale-telling1556
storytelling1681
narrative1843
yarn-spinning1867
narrativity1971
1382 J. Wyclif Psalms cxviii[i]. 85 Wicke men tolden to me talingus; but not as thi lawe.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxxviii. 124 As flaterye heeld me thus with talinge,..and told me hire doinges.
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 84 Gaming, and taling, and reading of merry stories.
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer 211 Among the poore are many wicked things..scolding, fightings, cursings, taleing, lies.
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