Thesaurus:informant
THESAURUS | informant |
English
Synonyms
- abaddon (archaic)
- accuser
- beefer
- bewrayer
- bigmouth
- blabber
- blabtale (obsolete)
- blabtongue (obsolete)
- canary
- CI
- finger [WS] (US, rare slang)
- fink (slang)
- fizgig (Australia)
- gossip [WS]
- grass [WS] (chiefly UK)
- informant
- informer
- jurat
- leak
- mole
- narc
- nark
- outer
- peacher
- rat (slang)
- rooster (obsolete slang)
- sneak [WS]
- snitch (slang)
- snout (UK)
- squealer
- stooge
- stoolie
- sycophant [WS] (obsolete)
- tattler
- tattletale (usually juvenile)
- telltale tit (juvenile)
- telltale
- whistleblower
- squealer
- stoolie
- stool pigeon
- state's evidence
See also
- Thesaurus:rat out (verb)
- Thesaurus:gossiper
Further reading
- “529. disclosure” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “informant” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.