单词 | talebearer |
释义 | talebearern. One who officiously carries reports of private matters to gratify malice or idle curiosity. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer rounderOE blabc1374 tale-teller1377 clatterer1388 tittlerc1400 talebearer1478 whisterer1519 whisperer1547 telltale1548 tattler1549 clatterfart1552 tale-carrier1552 babbler?1555 gossip1566 gossiper1568 carry-tale1577 mumble-news1598 twitter1598 buzzer1604 blob-talea1670 gadabout1757 tell-pie1771 circulator1792 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). < n.1478 |
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