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scatter-story

scatter-story noun: a person who spreads stories.

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

Forms of scatter-story

pluralscatter-stories

Origin of scatter-story

From scatter + story.

Questions about scatter-story

What does scatter-story mean?
Scatter-story means a person who spreads stories.
What part of speech is scatter-story?
Scatter-story is a noun.
What is the plural of scatter-story?
The plural of scatter-story is scatter-stories.

Words near scatter-story in the dictionary

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

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