Definitions
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- noun A
storyteller ; one whospins a yarn .
Etymologies
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yarn + spinner
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Examples
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The bar's resident yarnspinner, at 10pm on Tuesday he was regaling a reporter with his story about how, while attending Jingxin Kindergarten (靜心幼稚園), he was punished by his teacher after Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who is a year older than Liao, saw him teaching a few of his classmates how to speak Japanese.
Fawning over Ma Michael Turton 2007
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Iago, as a destructive yarnspinner, may have a rival in Tracey Ullman's Miss Lambert.
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