carrytale
nounEtymology From carry + tale.
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