tell+tales

  • 131tattle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. prattle, prate; chat[ter]; jabber, talk, gossip; reveal (a secret), inform, peach (inf.), tell on, tell tales, blab (sl.), spill the beans (sl.). See accusation, disclosure. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn.… …

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  • 132talcum powder — noun (U) a fine powder which you put on your skin after washing to make it dry or smell pleasant tale /teIl/ noun (C) 1 a story of imaginary events, especially of an exciting kind: tales of far off lands 2 a spoken description of an event or… …

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