单词 | tattler |
释义 | tattlern. 1. One who tattles; an idle talker, a chatterer; a gossip; a talebearer, telltale. 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 the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips kikelot?c1225 mathelild?c1225 cacklec1230 tutelerc1385 tittererc1400 roukera1425 trattlerc1485 flimmerc1530 tattler1549 chatter1561 gossip1566 gossiper1568 tittle-tattle1571 chatmate1599 fiddle-faddle1602 tittle-tattler1602 confabulator1659 twittle-twat1662 shat1709 prittle-prattle1725 tattle-basket1736 small-talker1762 nash-gab1816 granny1861 windjammer1880 schmoozer1899 scuttlebutt gossip1901 wag-tongue1902 coffee-houser1907 kibitzer1925 clatfarta1930 natterer1959 yacker1959 rapper1967 village gossip1972 1549 R. Crowley Voyce Laste Trumpet sig. Diiiiv Vayne tatyllars That do vse false rumours to sowe. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Tim. v. 13 Not onely idle, but tatlers also, and busibodies, speaking things which they ought not. View more context for this quotation 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 286 Mr. Prywell..a sober and judicious man, a man that is no tatler, nor raiser of false reports. View more context for this quotation 1781 W. Cowper Friendship xvii Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers, will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention. 1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. x. 252 As great and scandalous a tattler as anybody. 2. slang. A striking watch, a repeater; a watch in general. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > watch > [noun] clock1559 pocket watch?1576 watch1590 munter1594 tattler1688 loge1699 yack1789 thimble1819 ticker1821 toy1826 super1857 kettle1889 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia ii. i. 32 Here's a Tatler; Gold, all Gold, you Rogue. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Tattler, an Alarm, or Striking Watch, or (indeed) any. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. viii. 160 He carries his ‘tatler’ in the waistband of his unmentionables. 3. Ornithology. Any of the sandpipers of the genus Totanus or subfamily Totaninæ; so called from their vociferous cry. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Scolopacidae (snipes, etc.) > [noun] > member of sandpiper1674 stone-runner1681 sand bird1709 piper1793 tattler1831 water junket1833 tip-up1848 kitty-needy1850 weet-weet1852 peep1864 sand-runner1894 1831 Richardson & Swainson Faun. Bor.-Amer. II. 388 Totanus semipalmatus (Temm.), Semipalmated Tatler. 1872 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 250 The Terekia cinerea..stands between the godwits and tattlers. 1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 17 (note) Yellow-legged snipe, or tattler,..common in autumn on western rivers. DerivativesCategories » ˈtattlery n. rare ‘idle talk or chat’ (Webster 1847).Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
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