whiddle

English

Verb

whiddle (third-person singular simple present whiddles, present participle whiddling, simple past and past participle whiddled)

1. (slang) To inform on someone.
   • 2003, Brian Penton, The Inheritors, page 475:

     He said he only wanted one thing — if I'd chuck Gursey out again, in case he went whiddling to the colonel.

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary