carrytale

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noun

An indiscreet person who spreads gossip.

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Meanings

nouncarrytale (plural carrytales)

plural carrytales

  1. An indiscreet person who spreads gossip.

    'This sour informer, this bate-breeding spy, / This canker that eats up Love's tender spring, / This carrytale, dissentious Jealousy, / That sometime true news, sometime false doth bring,

    1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, lines 655–658

    Synonyms: blabbermouth, gossip, rumormonger, talebearer

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn indiscreet person who spreads gossip.

Similar
blabbermouthgossiprumormongertalebearer
Also see
blabbermouthgossipgossipergossipmongernewsmongerquidnuncrumormongerrumourertattletaletelltaletwit

Origin

From carry + tale.

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APA

carrytale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carrytale

MLA

“carrytale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carrytale. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “carrytale,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carrytale.

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