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tale-teller

tale-teller is the alternative form of taleteller.

Meaning of taleteller

Noun

taleteller (plural taletellers)

  1. A person who tells tales.
    • There hathe bene alate ſuche tales ſpreade abroade, and moſt vntruly, ſuch falſe taletellers ſhal haue a greuous puniſhement of the Lord whan he ſhall come to rewarde euerye one according vnto his deſertes.1552, Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[The First Sermon]”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562...

Forms of tale-teller

pluraltale-tellers

Questions about tale-teller

What is tale-teller the alternative form of?
Tale-teller is the alternative form of taleteller.

Words near tale-teller in the dictionary

  1. tale-bearers
  2. tale-bearing
  3. tale-bearings
  4. tale-book
  5. tale-books
  6. tale-teller
  7. tale-tellers
  8. talea
  9. taleable
  10. taleae
  11. Taleb

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tale-teller (page history and authors); taleteller (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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