Newsmonger
81informant — n appriser, adviser, notifier; announcer, reporter, newsmonger, instructor; mouthpiece, spokesman, spokeswoman, public relations man or woman, Sl. flak, advance man; source, Inf. tipster, Inf. horse s mouth, Sl.Deep Throat …
82journalist — n newspaperman, Brit. pressman, newscaster, Archaic. gazetteer, newswriter, newsmonger, newshound; reporter, Sl. legman, gentleman of the press, newsman, newswoman, correspondent, contributor, stringer, paragrapher, Brit. paragraphist;… …
83newsman — n journalist, newspaperman, Brit. pressman, Archaic. gazetteer, gentleman or representative of the press, member of the fourth estate; reporter, Journalism. leg man, district man, newshound, news hen, Inf. newshawk, newsmonger; correspondent,… …
84quidnunc — n gossip, gossipmonger, rumormonger, newsmonger, newshound, scandalmonger, Sl. yenta, Archaic. flibbertigibbet; meddler, intermeddler, busybody, pry, Paul pry, snoop, Inf. snooper, Inf. busy, Inf. nosy, Inf. nosybody, Inf. nosy Parker, Inf.… …
85tabby — n 1. old maid, spinster, lone woman, bachelor girl, Fr. femme sole; unmarried woman, single woman, maid. 2. gossip, tattler, magpie, Sl. yenta; newsmonger, gossipmonger, rumormonger; talebearer, tattletale, telltale, taleteller; busybody,… …
86talker — n 1. speaker, orator, soapbox orator, stump orator, speechmaker, public speaker, spellbinder; main speaker, keynoter; haranguer, speechifier, de claimer, ranter, Inf. spouter, Inf. spieler, Inf. tub thumper, Sl. jawsmith; demagogue, rabble rouser …
87telltale — n 1. tattler, talebearer, whisperer; gossip, gossipper, gossipmonger, newsmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger; loud mouth, Inf. blabbermouth, Sl. big mouth; Sl. yenta, tabby, cat; quidnunc, busybody, Paul Pry, snoop, meddler, Australian.… …
88writer — n 1. penman, penner, Sl. pen pusher, Sl. ink slinger, Sl. ink spiller, Sl. quill driver; author, composer, creative writer, wordsmith, word painter; hack, scribbler, Inf. word slinger, Inf. potboiler, Chiefly Brit. Archaic. penny a liner. 2.… …
89busybody — [n] nosy, impertinent person backseat driver*, butt in*, buttinsky*, eavesdropper, fink*, fussbudget, gossip, intermeddler, intruder, meddler, newsmonger*, nosey parker*, rubberneck*, scandalmonger*, sidewalk superintendent*, snoop, snooper,… …
90gossip — [n1] talk about others; rumor account, babble, back fence talk*, blather, blether, buzz*, calumny, chatter, chitchat*, chronicle, clothesline*, conversation, cry, defamation, dirty laundry*, dirty linen*, dirty wash*, earful*, grapevine*, hearsay …
