TATTLER

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Any of several long-legged shorebirds having a loud whistling cry

Classified under:

Hypernyms ("tattler" is a kind of...):

sandpiper (any of numerous usually small wading birds having a slender bill and piping call; closely related to the plovers)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tattler"):

Heteroscelus incanus; Polynesian tattler (tattler of Pacific coastal regions)

Catoptrophorus semipalmatus; willet (large North American shorebird of eastern and Gulf Coasts)

Meaning:

Someone who gossips indiscreetly

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("tattler" is a kind of...):

gossip; gossiper; gossipmonger; newsmonger; rumormonger; rumourmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)

Derivation:

tattle (divulge confidential information or secrets)