| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A person habitually engaged in idle talk about others: blab, gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger, tabby, talebearer, taleteller, tattle, tattletale, telltale, whisperer. Slang : yenta. See WORDS. 2. One who gives incriminating information about others: informant, informer, tattletale. Informal : rat, tipster. Slang : fink, snitch, snitcher, squealer, stoolie, stool pigeon. See KNOWLEDGE, LAW.
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