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Tattler n.

One who tattles; an idle talker; one who tells tales.

(Zool.) Any one of several species of large, long-legged sandpipers belonging to the genus Totanus. Note: The common American species are the greater tattler, or telltale (Totanus melanoleucus), the smaller tattler, or lesser yellowlegs (Totanus flavipes), the solitary tattler (Totanus solitarius), and the semipalmated tattler, or willet. The first two are called also telltale, telltale spine, telltale tattler, yellowlegs, yellowshanks, and yelper.

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"Tattler" Quotes from Famous Books

... to be held as a tattler. "I told him," she continued, husking peanuts busily, "about the ...

— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... head, Bingie, before that," answered Mowbray. "Best speak to the Captain before hand—it is a hellish scrape you are running into—I'll let you off yet, Bingie, for a guinea forfeit.—See, I am just going to start the tattler." ...

— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... indignation against Jokisch. How dared he say a single word against Mrs. Tiralla, even when he was drunk? The schoolmaster had been quite right this time. Jokisch was to keep a civil tongue in his head. He was a henpecked husband, a tattler. All the bachelors jeered at the inspector. Little Zientek poured the dregs from his tumbler over his head, and when he resisted, and snorted and swore loudly as he hit about him, they drew the chair from under him, so that he sat down on the floor on which everybody had ...

— Absolution • Clara Viebig

... notions were of a what a man ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt of Mr. John Thorpe's being altogether completely agreeable. A tattler and a swaggerer, having elicited, as he thought, from Catherine that she was the destined heiress of Mr. Allen, he twice endeavoured to detach her, by a glaring lie, from keeping engagements with the Tilneys; and when he did succeed in persuading her to go with him in his gig, she found ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol. I • Various

... and hastened on his way, boiling with curiosity to know what it was that Beth had been doing to require this old tattler's services. He meant to ascertain. His suspicions went at once to Van, at thought of whom he closed down his jaw ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... know that Cliff and Berrie had quarreled, for she treated the girl with maternal familiarity. She was a good-natured, well-intentioned old sloven, but a most renowned tattler, and the girl feared her more than she feared any other woman in the valley. She had always avoided her, but she showed nothing of this dislike ...

— The Forester's Daughter - A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range • Hamlin Garland

... Vittoria Archilei. Embryo opera of Cavalieri. Peri's "Eurydice." Euterpe. Marthe le Rochois and Lully's operas. Rival queens in London. Steele, in "Tattler." Second pair of rivals, Cuzzoni and Faustina. Master Handel. Germany's earliest queen of song. Frederick the Great and German singers. Mrs. Billington. Haydn and Sir Joshua Reynold's St. Cecilia. Mozart's operas introduced into England. Catalani. Pasta. Sontag. Schroeder-Devrient ...

— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore

Words linked to "Tattler" : gossipmonger, newsmonger, gossiper, willet, rumourmonger, sandpiper, taleteller, blabbermouth, Heteroscelus incanus, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, rumormonger, Polynesian tattler, tattle, talebearer, telltale