carrytale
English
Etymology
carry + tale
Noun
carrytale (plural carrytales)
- An indiscreet person who spreads gossip.
- 1593, Shakespeare, William, Venus and Adonis, lines 655–658:
- 'This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy, / This canker that eats up Love's tender spring, / This carrytale, dissentious Jealousy, / That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,
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Synonyms
- blabbermouth, gossip, rumormonger, talebearer; see also Thesaurus:gossiper