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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who tattles (notifies authorities of illicit behavior) or is inclined to do so; a tattletale. 2 Either of two similar bird species in the shorebird genus (taxlink Heteroscelus genus noshow=1) (''Tringa'' in some taxonomies). 3 A device fitted to a vehicle to measure mileage etc.
WordNet
n. someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth]
any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry
Wikipedia
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The Tattler is the student newspaper of Ithaca High School in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1892, it is one of the oldest student newspapers in the United States. It is published six to ten times a year, and has a circulation of about 3,000, with distribution in both the school and in the community.
The Tattler has traditionally been almost entirely student-run, with a student editorial board and student writers working with the assistance of a faculty advisor (usually a teacher in the IHS English department). The publication has expanded considerably in the past ten years, increasing its number of pages, introducing distribution outside of the high school, and developing an online presence.
Famous alumni include Paul Wolfowitz (Features Editor, 1959–1960; Editorial Assistant, 1960–1961) and Stephen Carter (Editor-in-Chief, 1971–1972).
The Tattler's slogan, a pun on the New York Times' slogan, is "All the news that's fit to tattle."
The Tattler has twice (in 2005 and 2007) won the Ithaca High School Class/Ithaca Public Education Initiative "Support Our School Community Award," an award given to the extracurricular activity "which has had the most positive impact on IHS".
The tattlers are the two very similar bird species in the shorebird genus Tringa. They formerly had their own genus, Heteroscelus. The old genus name means "different leg" in Greek, referring to the leg scales that differentiate the tattlers from their close relatives, the shanks.
The species are:
- Grey-tailed tattler, Tringa brevipes (formerly Heteroscelus brevipes)
- Wandering tattler, Tringa incana (formerly Heteroscelus incanus)
Tattlers resemble a common redshank (T. totanus) in shape and size, but not in color. Their upper parts, underwings, face and neck are greyish, and the belly and the weak supercilium are white, with some greyish streaking on the underside in breeding plumage. They have short yellowish legs and a bill with a pale base and dark tip.
Certain identification to species depends on details like the length of the nasal groove and scaling on the tarsus. Birds in breeding plumage can also (with some experience) be identified by the underside pattern: the grey-tailed tattler has fine barring on throat, breast and flanks only, which appear light grey from a distance; the rest of the underside is pure white. The wandering tattler has a coarser barring, still visible from quite far away, all the way from the throat to the undertail coverts. In non-breeding plumage, observers with much experience will note that the wandering tattler is an overall darker bird with very weak supercilia, whereas the grey-tailed tattler is lighter – particularly on the face, due to their stronger supercilia. Their normal calls also differ strongly; the grey-tailed tattler has a disyllabic whistle, whereas the wandering tattler has a rippling trill. But when they flee from the observer or are otherwise startled or excited, both species alike give a variety of longer or shorter alarm calls.
Tattlers are strongly migratory and winter in the tropics and subtropics on muddy and sandy coasts. These are not particularly gregarious birds and are seldom seen in large flocks except at roosts. These birds forage on the ground or water, picking up food by sight. They eat insects, crustaceans and other invertebrates.
Their breeding habitat is stony riverbeds. They nest on the ground, but these waders will perch in trees and sometimes use old nests of other birds.
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 hard-copy and on-line. From 2006 it became available in Chinese- and Indonesian-language versions, as well as in English.
Tattler ( Pinyin Yǔsī, "Language Thread") was an important Chinese weekly journal founded in 1924 and very influential in the establishment of the new literature in China. It later changed into a semi-monthly and finally ceased publication March 1930. It fostered a distinctive "Tattler literary style" .
Tattler may refer to:
- A person who likes to tattle, gossip or "telltale"
- Tattler (语丝) important Chinese weekly journal founded in 1924
- The Tattler, the student newspaper of Ithaca High School in Ithaca, New York
- Tattler (bird), a shorebird
- Tattler (newsletter), the "Newsletter for the East Asian-Australasian Flyway"
- Tattler, an open-source software distribution of Drupal for mining the Web for specific information1
- "Tattler", a song by Ry Cooder on his 1974 album Paradise and Lunch
- "The Tattler", a song by Linda Ronstadt on her 1976 album Hasten Down the Wind, a cover of the Ry Cooder song
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.