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scatter-stories

scatter-stories is the plural of scatter-story.

Meaning of scatter-story

Noun

scatter-story (plural scatter-stories)

  1. (obsolete) A person who spreads stories.
    • Aelian and some other such scatter-stories as himself, do make more reports of Dogs and Elephants, of Birds and Horses, and some other unreasonable creatures, that they did either compassionate or relieve, if they were able, the miseries of those Masters whom they had long attended[…]1675, John Hacket, “A Sermon Preached upon the Gowry Conspiracy Before King James”, in A Century of Sermons upon Several Remarkable Subjects, London: Thomas Plume

Questions about scatter-stories

What is scatter-stories the plural of?
Scatter-stories is the plural of scatter-story.

Words near scatter-stories in the dictionary

  1. scatter'd
  2. scatter-brained
  3. scatter-gun
  4. scatter-guns
  5. scatter-plot
  6. scatter-stories
  7. scatter-story
  8. scatter/gather
  9. scatterable
  10. scatteration
  11. scatterations

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