Newsmonger

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Newsmonger \News"mon`ger\, n.
     One who deals in news; one who is active in hearing and
     telling news.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  newsmonger
       n : a person given to gossiping and divulging personal
           information about others [syn: {gossip}, {gossiper}, {gossipmonger},
            {rumormonger}, {rumourmonger}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "newsmonger":
     a tale-bearing animal, adviser, announcer, annunciator, authority,
     busybody, channel, communicant, communicator, enlightener,
     expert witness, gossip, gossip columnist, gossiper, gossipmonger,
     grapevine, informant, information center, information medium,
     informer, interviewee, monitor, mouthpiece, newspaperman, notifier,
     press, public relations officer, publisher, quidnunc, radio,
     reporter, rumormonger, scandalmonger, source, spokesman, tabby,
     talebearer, taleteller, tattler, tattletale, television, teller,
     telltale, tipster, tittle-tattler, tout, witness, yenta