carrytale
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
carrytale (plural carrytales)
- An indiscreet person who spreads gossip.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 655–658:
- 'This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy, / This canker that eats up Love's tender spring, / This carrytale, dissentious Jealousy, / That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,
Synonyms[edit]
- blabbermouth, gossip, rumormonger, talebearer; see also Thesaurus:gossiper