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tat·tler

 (tăt′lər)
n.
1. One who tattles.
2. Either of two shorebirds of the genus Tringa found in Asia, Australia, and western North America, especially T. incana, noted for its loud cry.
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tattler

(ˈtætlə)
n
1. a person who tattles; gossip
2. (Animals) any of several sandpipers of the genus Heteroscelus, such as H. incanus (Polynesian tattler), of Pacific coastal regions
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tat•tler

(ˈtæt lər)

n.
1. a person who tattles; telltale.
2. either of two shorebirds of the genus Heteroscelus, having a loud, whistling cry.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.tattler - someone who gossips indiscreetlytattler - someone who gossips indiscreetly  
gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, gossip - a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others
2.tattler - any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
sandpiper - any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers
Heteroscelus incanus, Polynesian tattler - tattler of Pacific coastal regions
Catoptrophorus semipalmatus, willet - large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts
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tattler

noun
1. A person habitually engaged in idle talk about others:
Slang: yenta.
2. One who gives incriminating information about others:
Informal: rat, tipster.
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Translations

tattler

[ˈtætləʳ] N (= chatterbox) → charlatán/ana m/f; (= gossip) → chismoso/a m/f
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tattler

nKlatschmaul nt (pej sl), → Klatschbase f (inf)
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References in classic literature ?
He meant to go away before that, so don't think his heart is broken, or mind what silly tattlers say.
On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler. He, Martin Eden, was a better man than that fellow.
Come," he added, laying his hand too familiarly on the shoulder of his captive to urge her onward; "a Huron is no tattler; we will go."
Moreover, as will be seen in the course of my story, the pedlar was inquisitive, and something of a tattler, always itching to hear the news and anxious to tell it again.
He was a great gossip and tattler, and to produce a laugh would hardly have spared the reputation of his aged mother.
395), adds a new dimension to the patristic reflections on widowhood: a preoccupation with widows who abuse their title--the "idlers," "tattlers," and "busybodies." His homily on 1 Timothy 5:3-16 repeats the predominant understanding of widowhood passed down from previous centuries: the "true widow" is the one who has no support other than the Church; who lives in continence; who like Anna the prophetess persists in prayer day and night; who has washed the feet of the saints and performed every good work.
From Tattlers' exchanges among retired and serving envoys, our Ambassador to Belgium Eduardo de Vega swears that at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete Ambrosio Padilla and the Philippine basketball team had fared even better than the bronze medalist Mexico team.
But, a few tattlers have a problem with me being called as Kingmaker as the consequence."
Pacquiao, who is making his ring return a year after yielding the WBO welterweight title to Jeff Horn in a controversial decision in Brisbane, Australia, added the tattlers' intent to sabotage the bout backfired after they ended up promoting the fight in creating rumors that were picked up by several news websites.
Fond, foolish, wanton, flibbergibs, tattlers, triflers, wavering, witless, without council, feeble, careless, rash, proud, dainty, tale-bearers, eavesdroppers, rumour-raisers, evil-tongued, worse-minded, and in every way doltified with the dregs of the devil's dunghill (Stretton 2005, 52).
I should celebrate that they all get to leave, even the informers and the tattlers, the guards and the agents.