Tattletale vs. Telltale

Tattletaleadjective

telltale; giveaway

Tattletalenoun

One who tattles (reports others' wrongdoings), often a child seeking attention.

Tattletalenoun

One who gossips, often for the sake of attention.

Tattletalenoun

someone who gossips indiscreetly

Tattletalenoun

a person, especially a child, who reveals secrets or informs on others; a telltale.

Tattletaleverb

reveal someone's secrets; tell tales

Telltalenoun

One who divulges private information with intent to hurt others.

Telltalenoun

Tattletale; squealer.

Telltalenoun

(figuratively) Something that serves to reveal something else.

Telltalenoun

(music) A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected to the bellows of an organ, whose position indicates when the wind is exhausted.

Telltalenoun

(nautical) A length of yarn or ribbon attached to a sail or shroud etc to indicate the direction of the flow of the air relative to the boat.

Telltalenoun

(nautical) A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

Telltalenoun

(nautical) A compass in the cabin of a vessel, usually placed where the captain can see it at all hours, and thus inform himself of the vessel's course.

Telltalenoun

(engineering) A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees (factory hands, watchmen, drivers, etc.) by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

Telltalenoun

(ornithology) A bird, the tattler.

Telltaleadjective

Revealing something, especially something not intended to be known.

Telltaleadjective

Telling tales; babbling.

Telltalenoun

One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.

Telltalenoun

A movable piece of ivory, lead, or other material, connected with the bellows of an organ, that gives notice, by its position, when the wind is exhausted.

Telltalenoun

A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.

Telltalenoun

A machine or contrivance for indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

Telltalenoun

The tattler. See Tattler.

Telltalenoun

A thing that serves to disclose something or give information; a hint or indication.

Telltalenoun

An arrangement consisting of long strips, as of rope, wire, or leather, hanging from a bar over railroad tracks, in such a position as to warn freight brakemen of their approach to a low overhead bridge.

Telltalenoun

someone who gossips indiscreetly

Telltaleadjective

disclosing unintentionally;

Telltaleadjective

revealing, indicating, or betraying something

Telltalenoun

a person, especially a child, who reports others' wrongdoings or reveals their secrets.

Telltalenoun

a device or object that automatically gives a visual indication of the state or presence of something.