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单词 tale-teller
释义

tale-tellern.

Etymology: < tale n. + teller n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈtale-ˌteller.
1. A teller of tales or stories; a narrator.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller
tale-tellera1387
talesman?a1505
historian1586
fabulator1604
tales-master1656
narrator1722
spinner1770
storier1816
Scheherazade1851
yarn-spinner1865
yarn-teller1891
yarn-slinger1897
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 337 Beda knew neuere þat ilond wiþ his eyȝe; bot some tale tellere [L. relator] tolde hym suche tales.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/1 Taletellar, emboucheur, diseur de fables.
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. iii Bebeus, a notable Tale-teller.
1728–30 A. Pope in Spence Anecd. Bks. & Men i. (1820) 19 Chaucer..is the first Tale-teller in the true and enlivened natural way.
1871 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 263 Thou tale-teller of vanished men.
2. A talebearer; a tell-tale. Also figurative.
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
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 297 Alle taletellers and tyterers in ydel.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxviii. f. clxv But ill tale tellers..this brotherlye loue was after desolued.
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. ix. 453 To be a tale teller and a false witnesse.
1619 in R. S. Ferguson & W. Nanson Munic. Rec. Carlisle (1887) 277 Slandering Robert James to be comon tayle teller to Mr. Chancelor.
1896 W. Black 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar
liarc950
gabbera1325
fabler1362
wernard1362
leasing-mongerc1380
false sayera1382
leasing-maker1424
leasing-bearerc1440
contriver1477
drivelard1530
falsifier1532
lie-teller1552
Ananias1572
lick-dish1575
falsificator1609
fabulist1626
cracka1640
leaser1641
commentiter1645
prevaricator1650
cracker1652
bugiarda1670
rapper1758
pseudologist1804
Tom Pepper1818
wrinkler1819
lie-monger1830
untruther1889
tale-teller1894
1894 Daily News 28 Mar. 5/5 Persons who had not backed horses on the recommendation of a ‘tale-teller’.

Derivatives

ˈtale-ˌtelling n. and adj. (a) n. the telling of tales, story-telling; (b) adj. that tells tales or stories.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling
taling1382
storyingc1449
narrationc1450
tale-telling1556
storytelling1681
narrative1843
yarn-spinning1867
narrativity1971
1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther Antichrist f. 116 Thus the harlot bewrayeth him self in his owne tale telling.
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. i. xviii. 16 The broad-glaring eye of the tale-telling day.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea iv. 54 One is winked at for a tale-telling traveller, if one says what I am saying now.
1898 G. Saintsbury Short Hist. Eng. Lit. x. i The wild stories which float through mediæval tale-telling.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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