tattlers

One is cluttered with newspapers and tattlers and scandal sheets, another with petit-hourglasses and abaci.

Some sandpiper groups sound like fancy Victorian musical instruments or board games: whimbrels and willets, dowitchers, dunlins, shanks, and tattlers.

I got up from my workbench and de­manded that they leave: the tattlers, the oafs, the bores, the faithful.

In North America it is represented by two species, Totanus semipalmatus and T. melanoleucus, there called willets, telltales or tattlers, which in general habits resemble the greenshank of the Old World.

The commonplace tattlers with their humdrum, uneventful lives scarcely exist for me.