adjective, noun
adjective [onlybeforenoun] showing that sth exists or has happened:
telltale clues / marks / signs / sounds * The telltale smell of cigarettes told her that he had been in the room.
noun (BrE) (AmE tattletale) (informal, disapproving) a child who tells an adult what another child has done wrong
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for telltale is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does telltale appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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