Dictionary Entry
telltale
telltale is a 8-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Telling tales; babbling. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 11 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Telling tales; babbling.
- 2noun
One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- 5noun
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.
- 6noun
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.
- 7noun
The tattler. See Tattler.
- 8noun
someone who gossips indiscreetly
- 9adjective
disclosing unintentionally
"a telling smile"
"a telltale panel of lights"
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