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ˈtale-ˌteller
[f. tale n. + teller.]
1. A teller of tales or stories; a narrator.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 337 Beda knew neuere þat ilond wiþ his eyȝe; bot some tale tellere [L. relator] tolde hym suche tales. 1530Palsgr. 279/1 Taletellar, emboucheur, diseur de fables. 1623Cockeram iii, Bebeus, a notable Tale-teller. 1728–30Pope in Spence Anecd. Bks. & Men i. (1820) 19 Chaucer..is the first Tale-teller in the true and enlivened natural way. 1871Morris in Mackail Life (1899) I. 263 Thou tale-teller of vanished men.
2. A talebearer; a tell-tale. Also fig.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 297 Alle taletellers and tyterers in ydel. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxvi. 254 By ill tale tellers..this brotherlye loue was after desolued. 1583Babington Commandm. ix. (1622) 87 To be a taleteller and false witnesse. 1619in Ferguson & Nanson Munic. Rec. Carlisle (1887) 277 Slandering Robert James to be comon tayle teller to Mr. Chancelor. 1896Black Briseis xix, How quick a tale-teller is the expression of your face, to one who has the skill to remark.
3. One who tells a ‘tale’ or made-up story with the object of deceiving or misleading.
1894Daily News 28 Mar. 5/5 Persons who had not backed horses on the recommendation of a ‘tale-teller’.
So ˈtale-ˌtelling n., the telling of tales, story-telling; a., that tells tales or stories.
1556Olde Antichrist 116 Thus the harlot bewrayeth him self in his owne tale telling. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes i. xviii. 16 The broad-glaring eye of the tale-telling day. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 54 One is winked at for a tale-telling traveller, if one says what I am saying now. 1898Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. x. i, The wild stories which float through mediæval tale-telling. |