† tutelertotelern.
Obsolete.
A whisperer, gossip, tale-bearer.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips
kikelot?c1225
mathelild?c1225
cacklec1230
tutelerc1385
tittererc1400
roukera1425
trattlerc1485
flimmerc1530
tattler1549
chatter1561
gossip1566
gossiper1568
tittle-tattle1571
chatmate1599
fiddle-faddle1602
tittle-tattler1602
confabulator1659
twittle-twat1662
shat1709
prittle-prattle1725
tattle-basket1736
small-talker1762
nash-gab1816
granny1861
windjammer1880
schmoozer1899
scuttlebutt gossip1901
wag-tongue1902
coffee-houser1907
kibitzer1925
clatfarta1930
natterer1959
yacker1959
rapper1967
village gossip1972
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Balade. 353 Ffor in ȝoure court is manye a losenger And manye a queynte totulour [v.rr. totelere, toteler, tutelere] acusour.
a1400 Langland's P. Pl. B. xx. 297 (MS. Camb. Dd. I. 17) Alle taletellers and tutelers.
c1400 MS. Bibl. Reg. 17 B. xvii. lf. 100 b Be rightful. Be no totiler.
c1400 Song Roland 226 Yet will tutlers in toun talk bound [etc.].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 498/1 Totelare, susurro.
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow i. 61 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 284 A tuttivillus a tutlar And a fanȝeit flatterar.
a1586 R. Henryson in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 348 Fals Tutlaris [?a1505 titlaris] now growis vp full rank.
a1586 R. Henryson in W. A. Craigie Maitland Folio MS (1919) I. 349 Giff þe tutelar [?a1505 tittillaris] so in his eir do roun.
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