scatter-story
English
Etymology
scatter + story
Noun
scatter-story (plural scatter-stories)
- (obsolete) A person who spreads stories.
- 1675, Hacket, John, “A Sermon Preached upon the Gowry Conspiracy Before King James”, in A Century of Sermons upon Several Remarkable Subjects, London: Thomas Plume:
- Aelian and some other such scatter-stories as himself, do make more reports of Dogs and Elephants, of Birds and Horses, and some other unreasonable creatures, that they did either compassionate or relieve, if they were able, the miseries of those Masters whom they had long attended […]
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