Meaning of telling bone | Babel Free

Definitions

The telephone.

humorous

Examples

““Oh great magician! Conjure more voices with thy telling bone.””

“His eyes widened. The box contained the Divine Egg! The strange sorcerer who was muttering into the telling-bone had found lots of them.”

“Lately, Fergus has been even more insufferable: he's in love, a piece of intelligence I winkled out of the elder curmudgeon, his grandfather, the Laird of Gunning, on the telling bone last night.”

“When we land I'll give you a tinkle on the telling bone.”

“She's visiting her sister in Launceston and I spoke to her on the telling bone last night.”

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