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ˈstory-ˌteller
[f. story n.1 + teller.]
One who tells stories.
1. One who is accustomed to tell stories or anecdotes in conversation.
1709Steele Tatler No. 132 ⁋10 There is nothing more ridiculous than an old trifling Story-Teller. 1711Addison Spect. No. 247 ⁋8 As for newsmongers, politicians, mimics, story-tellers,..they are as commonly found among the men as the women. a1763W. King Lit. & Polit. Anecd. (1819) 72 A story teller is the most agreeable or the most disagreeable character we can meet with. 1862Fraser's Mag. July 46 He was also a bon-vivant, a diner-out, and a story-teller.
2. Euphemistically: A liar. colloq.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) III. 20 Wicked story⁓teller! 1770Wesley Jrnl. 21 Mar., ‘But,’ says he [a boy of nine], ‘you quarrel with God's word;..So you make God a Story-teller.’ 1796F. Burney Camilla II. 63 He is a very learned gentleman, and no more a story-teller than I am myself. 1814Sporting Mag. XLIII. 371, I always believed you to be one of the greatest story tellers in England, but I find you have spoke the truth to day. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. I. 196 Oh, you story⁓teller, Tom! 1862Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Hallib. ii. ii, What an old story-teller she must be.
3. One whose business it is to recite legendary or romantic stories.
1777J. Richardson Dissert. Language 57 Professed story⁓tellers..are of early date in the East. 1813Byron Giaour 1334 note, The coffee-house story-tellers who abound in the Levant, and sing or recite their narratives. 1841Spalding Italy & Ital. Isl. III. 266 A profession peculiar to Italy and the East,—that of the Story-tellers. 1846Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II. 310 The Greek religion appears in them too much as a sort of accident, the arbitrary creation of poets and storytellers. 1908Hibbert Jrnl. Oct. 27, I have paid special attention to public story-tellers.
4. Applied to a writer of stories.
1814Scott Wav. lxv, These circumstances will serve to explain such points of our narrative as, according to the custom of story-tellers, we deemed it fit to leave unexplained, for the purpose of exciting the reader's curiosity. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xvii, The exigencies of a story⁓teller must lead him away from home now and then. 1885Miss Gatty Jul. H. Ewing i. 3, I have promised the children to write something for them about their favourite story-teller, Juliana Horatia Ewing.
transf.1879Social Notes IV. 114 Hogarth was a story⁓teller in the strictest sense of the term; his series of chapters correspond closely to the novelist's chapters.
5. The teller of a particular story.
1851D. Jerrold St. Giles xiv. 138 Again was he pressed to rehearse the tale, whilst mugs of ale rewarded the story⁓teller. 1883M. B. Betham-Edwards Disarmed iii, The story-teller suddenly broke down, as if thrilled and set a-tremble with the potency of his own words. 1911Swanton Ind. Tribes Lower Mississ. (Bureau Amer. Ethnol.) 323 note, The storyteller added that there were other parts of the myth, which he had forgotten. |