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• n  someone who gossips indiscreetly

• The brilliance of this 19th century Russian author is still to be discovered by most Western readers; this collection shows him to be a taleteller of eloquence and subtle power.
• Says one Kentucky taleteller: "The whiplike report resounded through the woods.
• Adventure was that incorrigible traveler and taleteller, Richard Halliburton, whether swimming the Hellespont or crossing the Alps la Hannibal on an elephant.

• tattletale
• tattler
• talebearer
• telltale
• blabbermouth