† tuteler, toteler Obs.
Forms: see tutel v.; also 5 tutlar, -er.
[f. tutel v. + -er1.]
A whisperer, gossip, tale-bearer.
| c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. 353 (Balade) Ffor in ȝoure court is manye a losenger And manye a queynte totulour [v.rr. totelere, toteler, tutelere] acusour. a 1400 Langland's P. Pl. B. xx. 297 (MS. Camb. Dd. I. 17) Alle taletellers and tutelers. c 1400 MS. Bibl. Reg. 17 B. xvii. lf. 100 b, Be rightful. Be no totiler. c 1400 Song Roland 226 Yet will tutlers in toun talk bound [etc.]. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 498/1 Totelare, susurro. c 1470 Henryson Poems (S.T.S.) III. 142 (Maitl. MS.) Fals Tutlaris [Bann. MS. titlaris] now growis vp full rank. Ibid. 143 Giff þe tutelar [Bann. MS. tittillaris] so in his eir do roun. a 1500 Colkelbie Sow 128 (Bann. MS.) A tuttivillus, a tutlar, And a fanyeit flatterar. |