tale-bearer

He'd be ready enough, I thought, to give a billet as personal secretary, confidential civilian aide, and general tale-bearer, to a well-seasoned campaigner who was also a kinsman.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

In the book of Leviticus, there is a specific prohibition against rechilut -- being a tale-bearer.

Larry Gellman: A New Year's Resolution 2009

A tale-bearer -- a biblical reference to a blogger or talk show host -- is someone who deals in information instead of other goods.

Larry Gellman: A New Year's Resolution 2009

“‘A poet is nasty and not fit,’ and so is a tale-bearer,” cried Schinner.

A Start in Life 2007

The tale-bearer, that constant parasite of such societies, had exquisite opportunities, and for a susceptible creature like

Voltaire 2007

Tell thee what, Mr. Schoolmaster, no wonder if thy son gets put on the fire, if thou employ him as a tale-bearer.

Westward Ho! 2007

Yet so it is: she may be a tale-bearer, a liar, and a thief; she may have a taste for brandy, and no heart.

Virginibus Puerisque and other papers 2005

You would wish to be proud of your daughters and not to blush for them - then seek for them an interest and an occupation which shall raise them above the flirt, the manoeuvrer, the mischief-making tale-bearer.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Callum, himself as the tale-bearer, might now be involved.

The Financier 2004

He looked at Pethick, whom he knew to be the tale-bearer, and the latter exclaimed, excitedly:

The Financier 2004