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TATTLER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tattler" is a kind of...):
sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tattler"):
Heteroscelus incanus; Polynesian tattler (tattler of Pacific coastal regions)
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus; willet (large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who gossips indiscreetly
Synonyms:
blabbermouth; talebearer; taleteller; tattler; tattletale; telltale
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tattler" is a kind of...):
gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)
Derivation:
tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)
