TATTLER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tattler mean? 

• TATTLER (noun)
  The noun TATTLER has 2 senses:

1. someone who gossips indiscreetly

2. any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry

  Familiarity information: TATTLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TATTLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who gossips indiscreetly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blabbermouth; talebearer; taleteller; tattler; tattletale; telltale

Hypernyms ("tattler" is a kind of...):

gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)

Derivation:

tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("tattler" is a kind of...):

sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tattler"):

Heteroscelus incanus; Polynesian tattler (tattler of Pacific coastal regions)

Catoptrophorus semipalmatus; willet (large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts)

 Context examples 

On shipboard he would be a sneak, a whiner, a tattler.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)