talewise
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talewise
- given to gossip or telling tales; talkative, garrulous
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section III:
- For she is tikil of hire taile · talwis of tonge / As comune as a cartwey · to eche a knaue þat walketh.
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References edit
- “tā̆le-wīse, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.