NOUN | person | tattler, tattletale, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth | someone who gossips indiscreetly |
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animal | tattler | any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry |
Sounds | tae'tler | |
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Rhymes | alveolar ... Ziegler: 240 rhymes with ler... |
Meaning | someone who gossips indiscreetly. | |
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Synonyms | tattletale, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth | |
Broader | gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger | A person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others |
Spanish | bocazas, chismoso, chivato, correveidile, cotilla, cuentista, fisgón, fuelle, murmurador, taleteller | |
Catalan | murmurador, portanoves, portaplatets, taleteller | |
Verbs | tattle | divulge confidential information or secrets |
Meaning | Any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry. | |
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Narrower | Polynesian tattler, Heteroscelus incanus | tattler of Pacific coastal regions |
willet, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus | large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts | |
Broader | sandpiper | Any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call |
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