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单词 talebearer
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talebearern.

Brit. /ˈteɪlˌbɛːrə/, U.S. /ˈteɪlˌbɛrər/
Etymology: < tale n. + bearer n.
One who officiously carries reports of private matters to gratify malice or idle curiosity.
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whisterer1519
whisperer1547
telltale1548
tattler1549
clatterfart1552
tale-carrier1552
babbler?1555
gossip1566
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blob-talea1670
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clype1825
windjammer1880
tattle-tale1889
panta1908
clatfarta1930
1478 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 50, No. 8) Isabella Aylemer est a taleberer betuyx man and man.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxjv He admonisheth him to gyue no credit to talebearers.
a1629 W. Hinde Faithfull Remonstr. (1641) lii. 173 He would shut his eares against tale-bearers, being the very seed-men of strife.
1774 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 75 We have heard nothing by the newspapers, but they are false talebearers.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xii. 207 These words were spoken in private; but some talebearer repeated them to the Commons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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