whiddle

English edit

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

(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.