单词 | carry-tale |
释义 | carry-talen. A person who habitually spreads rumours or gossips; a telltale, a gossip.After 17th cent. only in occasional use in representations of historical language or with allusion to Shakespeare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer rounderOE blabc1374 tale-teller1377 clatterer1388 tittlerc1400 talebearer1478 whisterer1519 whisperer1547 telltale1548 tattler1549 clatterfart1552 tale-carrier1552 babbler?1555 gossip1566 gossiper1568 carry-tale1577 mumble-news1598 twitter1598 buzzer1604 blob-talea1670 gadabout1757 tell-pie1771 circulator1792 clype1825 windjammer1880 tattle-tale1889 panta1908 clatfarta1930 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1703/2 By reason of carie tales [1587 carietales] and flatterers, the loue continued not long. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 463 Some carry tale, some please-man. View more context for this quotation 1619 W. Sclater Expos. 1 Thess. (1630) 131 We haue our carry-tales..to acquaint vs with their priuate actions & speeches. 1637 Pleasant Hist. Life & Death Will Summers sig. B6v He gained not onely great grace and favour from his Maiesty, but a generall love from the Nobility: for he was no carry-tale, nor whisperer, nor flattering insinuater, to breed discord and dissention. 1700 Char. Whig 46 Such an egregious carry-Tale, and Lyar. a1974 G. Heyer My Lord John (1977) i. i. 29 Only Harry maintained that Father Joseph was no carry-tale. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1577 |
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