carrytale
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