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.
Definitions
- adjective. Telling tales; babbling.
- noun. One who officiously communicates information of the private concerns of others; one who tells that which prudence should suppress.
- noun. 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.
- noun. A mechanical attachment to the steering wheel, which, in the absence of a tiller, shows the position of the helm.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. The tattler. See Tattler.
- noun. someone who gossips indiscreetly
- adjective. disclosing unintentionally
"a telling smile"
"a telltale panel of lights"
Synonyms
blabbermouth, talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, revealing, telling
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