单词 | tale-teller |
释义 | tale-tellern. 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). < n.1377 |
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