talebear
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from talebearer.
Verb edit
talebear (third-person singular simple present talebears, present participle talebearing, simple past talebore, past participle taleborne)
- To tell or spread tales.
- 1999, William H. Gass, The tunnel:
- So I write that of course there were others, as if it were so natural to talebear that my gossipy betrayal was inevitable, customary, doubtless witty, even right.