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Any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
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tattler
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Yellowlegs \Yel"low*legs`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of long-legged sandpipers of the genus Totanus , in which the legs are bright yellow; -- called also stone snipe , tattler , telltale , yellowshanks ; and yellowshins . See Tattler , 2.
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The Tattler , with the subtitle 'Newsletter for the East Asian - Australasian Flyway ', is produced quarterly by the Australasian Wader Studies Group for distribution to its members and other interested people and organisations. It is available both as ...
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n. someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale , taleteller , talebearer , telltale , blabbermouth ] any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
Usage examples of tattler.
Los Angeles Tattler that first printed a front-page article, by Gayle Clarke of course, with the headline, WHERE WILL THE ROACH STRIKE NEXT?
Of course every newspaper from the Times to the Tattler was zeroing in on the Roach murders.
Ace Tattler reporter has to have her head on straight in the morning when she goes to see the cops.
That Clarke girl from the Tattler is coming to the office this morning.
Press Relations, the Tattler had then run cheap-shot editorials about how Captain Andrew Palatazin was dragging his feet on the Roach investigation.
He rummaged again, found another Tattler, and pushed it toward Gayle like a piece of rotten meat.
In the middle of scissoring he remembered his mother holding a pair of scissors, too, going through the Times and the Herald-Examiner and the National Enquirer, the Tattler and the Star and Fate magazine and a dozen others, searching for articles she would clip and put away in a little metal box that now sat on the top shelf of his bedroom closet.
But rather look - Ah, that the woman tattler had not sought, Of all the Gods to let her secret fly, Hermes, after the thirteen songful months!
Prywell was always a lover of Mansoul, a sober and judicious man, a man that is no tattler, nor raiser of false reports, but one that loves to look into the very bottom of matters, and talks nothing of news, but by very solid arguments.
Prywell was always a lover of Mansoul, a sober and a judicious man, a man that was no tattler, nor a raiser of false reports, but one that loves to look into the very bottom of matters, and talks nothing of news but by very solid arguments.
Like an errant child, Tattlers sat by itself, unattached and off to the left.
Also, I might go back to Tattlers find out if any of the girls were ever asked to be couriers.
Amazing Marriage was again the riddle in the cracker for tattlers and gapers.
Now the legend painted across the plateglass window in bold blue scrolled letters said THE LOS ANGELES TATTLER.
First North American serial rights for print went to the New York Post, followed by the National Tattler.