单词 | tattler |
释义 | tattler (once / 35494 pages) 1n 2n WORD FAMILY tattler: tattlers+/tattle: tattled, tattler, tattles, tattling USAGE EXAMPLESIn the Hoover block, they produced The Dayton Tattler, the newspaper of the black writer and poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, a classmate of Orville Wright’s. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) Some sandpiper groups sound like fancy Victorian musical instruments or board games: whimbrels and willets, dowitchers, dunlins, shanks, and tattlers. The Verge(Jun 26, 2016) “And finally, the most exciting change: we’ve decided to name this new correspondence the Tattler. After the European magazine all the ladies over there read.” Kathryn Stockett, The Help(2009) 1 n someone who gossips indiscreetly 2Syn|Hyper blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattletale, telltale gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others n any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry Hypo|Hyper Heteroscelus incanus, Polynesian tattler tattler of Pacific coastal regions Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, willetlarge North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts sandpiper any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers |
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