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). Flor 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. tutillaris] so in his eir do roun.
a. 1500. Colkelbie Sow, 128 (Bann. MS.). A tuttivillus, a tutlar, And a fanyeit flatterar.
