tattler
IPA: tˈætɫɝ
noun
- One who tattles (notifies authorities of illicit behavior) or is inclined to do so; a tattletale.
- Either of two similar bird species in the shorebird genus Heteroscelus (Tringa in some taxonomies).
- A device fitted to a vehicle to measure mileage etc.
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Examples of "tattler" in Sentences
- On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler.
- Don't be such a tattler, Chloe, or you'll have to stay in at recess.
- I like the quote from the intelligence tittle-tattler: In this business nothing is unlikely.
- It was she — the foolish tattler — who had set the report abroad regarding the poor Indian woman.
- He is not a whit less a tattler and a scandal monger than the old Roman tonsor or Figaro, his confrère in Southern Europe.
- And now I get to go back to work tomorrow faced with the dilemma of tattlin on the tattler to my own boss or playing dumb about it.
- Pressure the school to gradually change its culture, so that showing concern is labeled as being heroic, rather than being a tattler.
- Love your neighbor signifies assist your neighbor, but not — enjoy his conversation with pleasure, if he be tiresome; confide to him your secrets, if he be a tattler; or lend him your money, if he be a spendthrift.
- Eastern Willet, Tringa s. semipalmata synonym; Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, formerly; Symphemia semipalmata, protonym; Scolopax semipalmata, also known as the semipalmated tattler or simply as the willet, photographed at Bolivar Peninsula, Texas, USA.
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