Spill
Spill verb - To make known (as information previously kept secret).
Usage example: the actor's butler spilled the secret to a tabloid for $40,000
Talk
Talk verb - To relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature.
Usage example: you're a fine one to talk about your sister's marital problems when you have had plenty of your own
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| dead | dead spill | dead talk |
| single | single spill | single talk |
| small | small spill | small talk |
| big | big spill | big talk |
| Other adjectives: quick, general. | ||
Common collocations
| bit | spill bit | talk bit |
Both words in one sentence
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The Scary Librarian will freak out if you talk in the library, fail to return a book on time, or, God forbid, spill something on it.
Source: Scary Librarian -
Baird from Video Game News, Nick Hodges, Jason Murphy, and Professor Jeff to talk about video games they just played, mostly Xbox 360 games, as well as hosted The Loading Bar Call-In Show, which functions very similar to the aforementioned Spill version.
Source: Web Animation / Spill -
Talk to Everyone: Don Perignon won't spill the beans on Laurent until you've found all of the huts and spoken to their inhabitants.
Source: Video Game / Seiken Densetsu 3
Cite this Source
Talk and Spill. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 20, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/spill/talk
Spill & Talk. N.p., 2016. Web. 20 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/spill/talk>.
Talk or Spill. 2016. Accessed July 20, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/spill/talk.
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