Reverse Dictionary: STORY

ADJECTIVES
1530 — TALISH of the nature of a tale or story; fabulous → obs.
1726 — SAUNTERING of a story: foolish, trumpery → obs.
1726 — TALEFUL full of tales; making a long story; talkative
1753 — WAFF of a story, report, or rumour: floating, general, of unspecified origin → Sc.
1802 — VAMPED-UP of a story, etc.: invented, fabricated, trumped up
1960 — HAIRY of a joke or story: old, out-of-date → Amer. dial.

NOUNS
1300 — LETTRURE a writing, a written book, a story → obs.
1300 — MARVEL a wonderful story or legend → obs.
1385 — LEGEND a story, history, account → obs.
1529 — RAGMAN ROLL a tedious story; twaddle; a rambling statement; rigmarole → colloq.
1563 — CANTERBURY STORY → CANTERBURY TALE a long, elaborate, and ultimately tedious story
1570 — A TALE OF A ROASTED HORSE an invented story, an idle tale, a fiction, a falsehood
1580 — SKEALT story, talk, rumour → obs.
1625 — CRACKER a lie; a very tall story → colloq.
1660 — TELLING a story, narrative; talk, conversation; news; anything worth revealing or telling → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1681 — CIRCUMBENDIBUS a roundabout or indirect way or method; a roundabout, long-winded story; circumlocution
1692 — FAIRY STORY a ‘hard luck’ tale; any unlikely tale; a downright lie or excuse; an incredible story
1695 — POLYMYTHIA a combination of a number of different stories in one narrative or dramatic work → obs.
1704 — HISTORIETTE an historical treatise on a small scale; a short history or story; an anecdote
1707 — OLD SONG an old story or saying, a proverb, etc. → Sc.
1720 — THREEN — THREN — THRENE a story or tradition of a ghostly and generally superstitious nature → Sc.
1728 — POLYMYTHY a combination of a number of different stories in one narrative or dramatic work
1744 — TALE OF A TUB a fictitious tale, a cock-and-bull story → US
1753 — MYTHOS a myth; a traditional story
1753 — RIG-MY-ROLL a tedious story; twaddle; a rambling statement; rigmarole → colloq.
1762 — BAM a story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition; a trick, a joke → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1766 — SCRIFT a recitation; a long-winded story; a written composition; a made-up tale; a falsehood → Sc. obs.
1790 — UNCOUTH a quaint or novel anecdote → Eng. dial.
1795 — TELL an account, a story — used to give the authority for a statement → Amer. dial.
1796 — RANT a lively story or song; a loud noise → Sc. & Eng. dial.
1797 — FUDGE a made-up story, a deceit
..19C — AMPLEFEYST unnecessary talk; long stories → Sc.
..19C — RABBLE-ROTE a long rigmarole or roundabout story repeated by rote → Eng. dial.
..19C — RAMISON a long, tedious story; small talk → Eng. dial.
..19C — RAMMAS a long, tedious story; small talk → Eng. dial.
1805 — GAG a falsehood, a lie, an invention, a story → sl.
1812 — YARN a story, an adventure story, esp. a long, marvellous or incredible story; also, a mere tale → orig. nautical usage
1816 — FISH STORY an incredible story → Amer. sl.
1825 — MYTHUS a myth; a traditional story
1826 — LAGAMACHIE a long-winded rambling story or discourse; a harangue, rigmarole → Sc.
1826 — LAMGAMASHY a long-winded rambling story or discourse; a harangue, rigmarole → Sc.
1826 — LAMGAMMERIE a long-winded rambling story or discourse; a harangue, rigmarole → Sc.
1826 — LOGAMOCHY a long-winded rambling story or discourse; a harangue, rigmarole → Sc.
1836 — GOOSE’S GAZETTE a lying story; a flim-flam tale; a piece of reading for a ‘goose’ (simpleton)
1840 — MUNCHAUSEN a tall story → obs.
1846 — TALL STORY an extravagant, boastful story; a lie → colloq.
1846 — TALL TALE an extravagant, boastful story; a lie → colloq.
1851 — FAKE a spurious or counterfeit document; later, anything of a spurious, counterfeit, or fraudulent nature; a false rumour or false story of any kind; an invented newspaper story → sl., orig. criminals’ usage
1853 — NORATION an announcement, rumour, or a long, rambling account → Amer. dial.
1855 — BABBLE an idle, foolish story; gossip → Eng. dial.
1856 — BEAR STORY an exaggerated account; a ‘tall tale’ → Amer. dial.
1857 — SNAPPER the point or risible climax of a story or joke → Amer. sl.
1864 — CANARD an extravagant, or absurd story circulated to impose on people’s credulity; a rumour, hoax, a false report
1865 — PADDY a long, tedious rigmarole; a ‘cock-and-bull’ story → Eng. dial.
1865 — PADDY-NODDY — PADINODDY a long, tedious tale; a roundabout story; silly matter for gossip → Eng. dial.
1867 — DILDRAMS — DILDRUMS strange tales, improbable stories → Eng. dial.
1867 — GALLEY-PACKET a made-up story, a lie; an unfounded rumour
1867 — YARN-SPINNING telling a story
1869 — SCLORE rubbishy talk; nonsense; rigmarole; a long, rambling story → Sc.
1879 — RANIKABOO — RANNIKABOO — REINIKABOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper, a prank → Amer. sl.
1879 — RANNYGAZOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity → Amer. sl.
1879 — RENICKY a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → Amer. dial.
1879 — RENICKY-BOO a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → Amer. dial.
1881 — ANTER — AUNTER an adventure, a misadventure; a story of adventure, an unlikely story → Eng. dial.
1882 — RAVE a vague report, an uncertain rumour; a story which is not very credible → Sc.
1884 — MYTHOLOGEM a mythical story
1886 — CHESTNUT a stale story or outworn jest → colloq.
1891 — CUFFER a lie; a tale; an exaggerated and improbable story → Eng. dial.
1894 — SCRIVE a piece of writing; a letter; a statement or story written; handwriting; a short sermon → Sc.
1896 — BULL-CON an incredible story → Amer. sl.
1897 — HAIR-RAISER an exciting or terrifying adventure story or film → sl.
1898 — BAG OF MOONSHINE nonsense; idle, untrue stories → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..L19 — OLD MOTHER HUBBARD an unbelievable story; a fantasy → sl.
..L19 — PARABLE a long, dreary, egotistical statement; an incredible story → US sl.
..L19 — RACKET a story, a ‘line’ → sl.
..20C — GLURGE stories, often sent by email, that are supposed to be true and uplifting, but which are often fabricated and sentimental
..20C — OLD SAW an old joke or story → US sl.
1900 — FAIRY a fanciful tale, a ‘tall story’ → Aust. sl.
1900 — FAIRY-TWISTER a fanciful tale, a ‘tall story’ → Aust. sl.
1900 — RAG CHEWER a story → sl.
1902 — LAME TALE an excuse; a false story; a misrepresentation → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — RIBBLE an unlikely story → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — RIDLESS a doggerel rhyme; an improbable story, a rigmarole → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1904 — SCANCHUS a story, chat, discussion → Ireland (Bk.)
1905 — A TALE IN A TUB a fable; an old wife’s tale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1905 — THITTING an unpleasant story concerning a person, not told but held over him as a threat → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1910 — KANGAROO FEATHERS an impossible thing, often an unlikely story → Aust. sl.
1911 — WINDY an extravagantly exaggerated or boastful story; a tall tale, a lie → Amer. dial.
1912 — AVERING obtaining money by hard-luck stories → Eng. sl.
1915 — BIG ONE an incredible story; a whopper → Amer. dial.
1915 — FURPHY a false report or rumour; an absurd story → Aust. sl.
1916 — RANICKY a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → Amer. dial.
1920 — FANNY any form of story designed to elicit money, sympathy, provide excuses, etc. → sl.
1926 — FAKELOO a false rumour or false story; a yarn intended to deceive → Amer. sl.
1930 — LARGE ORDER an incredible story → colloq.
1930 — WHODUNIT — WHODUNNIT a story about the solving of a mystery, esp. a murder → sl.
1931 — FAKELOO a spurious tale, a ‘fairy story’ → US sl.
1933 — ACKAMARACKER — ACKAMARAKA a fraudulent tale, a tall story, nonsense → sl.
1933 — ACKAMARACKUS a fraudulent tale, a tall story, pretentious nonsense, bluff → Amer. sl.
1938 — OLDIE — OLDY any old thing or person; an old joke, story, song, or movie → US sl.
1940 — A LOAD OF OLD TROT a dubious story → sl.
1940 — OLD TROT a dubious story → sl.
1940 — QUICKIE a quick, ‘dirty’ story, related at the end of a party or drinking session → sl.
1940 — SNOW JOB an untrue but totally convincing story; a con-man’s patter → US sl.
1940 — SNOWFALL an untrue but totally convincing story; a con-man’s patter → US sl.
1942 — ANANIASFEST an exchange of tall stories → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — BEDTIME STORY an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — BUGHOUSE FABLE an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — CHERRY TREE TALE an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — COKE — COKE STORY an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — CON an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — COOK’S GALLEY YARN an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GALLEY YARN a rumour on which no reliance can be placed; an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GHOST STORY an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GIANT GOOSEBERRY an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — GOOSEBERRY an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — HOP STORY an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PIPE an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PIPE DREAM an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PISCATORIAL PREVARICATION an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — PRESS AGENT’S YARN an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SAILOR’S YARN an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SLEIGH RIDE an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SMUT SESSION a retailing of risqué stories → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — SPINE-TINGLER something pleasurably frightening, esp. an exciting story, etc.
1942 — TOUGH YARN an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 — TRAVELLER’S YARN an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1942 ​— A TALL ORDER an incredible story → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1945 — RANI-CUM-BOOGERIE a deceptive story or scheme; a prank, a racket, a scam → Amer. dial.
1945 — TEAR SQUEEZER something sad; a sad story → US Western usage (Bk.)
1947 — HEAVY LARD a ‘sob story’ → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1947 — MOTHER MCCREA a ‘sob story’ → Amer. sl. (Bk.)
1950 — BALLAD a story, usually long and complicated  → W. Indies & Black British
1953 — BACKSTAY the background of a story or event → Amer. dial.
1957 — A WHOLE MEGILLAH a long, complicated, or tedious story → sl.
1970 — NOVEL an elaborate story; a piece of information → Black British sl.
1975 — DEACON-SEATER a good tall story → Amer. dial.
1980 — EVERGREEN a story that is not news, but penetrating analysis, etc. → Amer. journalism sl.
1983 — JACKANORY a children’s story → rhyming sl.
1998 — FANFIC further stories and adventures for characters in familiar television programs and films written for pleasure by fans of the original, esp. widespread on the Internet → US sl.
1999 — COCK AND BULL STORY a silly, exaggerated story (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
1377 — JANGLER a story-teller, a jester → obs.
1380 — GESTER — GESTOUR a professional reciter or singer of romances or tales; a story-teller → obs.
1387 — TALE-TELLER a teller of tales or stories; a narrator
1568 — TALESMAN the teller of a tale; the author of a story; one who brings news or originates a statement; a relater, a narrator → obs. exc. Sc.
1604 — FABELLATOR an inventor of little tales; a fabulator; a story-teller
1604 — FABULATOR — FABULATOUR one who fabulates or relates fables; a story-teller
1605 — FABULIST a professional story-teller → obs.
1614 — FABLER one who invents fictitious stories; a dealer in feigned stories; chiefly in contemptuous use, a fiction-monger, a fabulous historian
1631 — TOM LONG one who takes a long time in coming, or in finishing his tale; a tiresome story-teller
1647 — FABLE-MAKER a compiler of a marvellous story
1656 — TALES-MASTER the teller of a tale; the author of a story; the authority for a statement, one who brings news or originates a statement; a relater, a narrator → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1737 — TALE-TELLER one said to have been hired to tell wonderful stories of giants and fairies, to lull hearers to sleep → sl. (Bk.)
1829 — RACONTEUR one skilled in relating anecdotes or stories
1834 — MUNCHAUSEN an inventor of extravagantly untruthful pseudo-autobiographical stories of amazing adventure and prowess
1846 — FABRICATRESS a female fabricator; a female who invents a false story; one who makes fictions
1863 — RACONTEUSE a female skilled in relating anecdotes or stories
1865 — YARN-SPINNER one who ‘spins a yarn’; a story-teller → colloq.
1883 — BLAGUEUR one who talks pretentiously; a joker or teller of stories
1890 — YARN-CHOPPER a fictional journalist; a story-teller, a chatterer, a long prosy talker → UK sl.
1890 — YARN-SLINGER one who writes tales in newspapers; a story-teller, a chatterer, a long, prosy talker → sl.
1891 — YARN-TELLER a narrator, a storyteller → sl.
1893 — FABRICATOR one who invents a false story; one who makes fictions (Bk.)
1898 — TALE-PITCHER one who tells a good story; a romancing talker or chattering malcontent→ sl. 
1900 — FAIRY-TWISTER the teller of a fanciful tales → Aust. sl.
1904 — REMBER a person who tells improbable stories → Sc. (Bk.)
1911 — BISCUIT SHOOTER one who ‘cook’s or ‘serves up’ a story → US sl.
1918 — MAGSMAN a raconteur; a story-teller → Aust. sl.
1920 — GLIMMER a teller of hard-luck stories → sl.
1926 — NATURE-FAKER a teller of untrue stories about nature, as of Santa Claus, the stork, etc. → US sl. (Bk.)
1934 — WINDJAMMER one who tells fabricated stories → US Western sl. (Bk.)
1992 — GALLOPING LIAR someone who tells stories big and fast → Amer. South (Bk.)

PHRASES
1860 — THE MOTHER OF THAT WAS A WHISKER a retort to an utterly implausible story → UK sl.
1898 — GIVE THE CAT A CANARY ‘tell it to the marines,’ said of an improbable story → Eng. dial. (Bk.)

VERBS
1350 — NEVEN to tell a story, the truth → obs.
1600 — EFFABULE to fable, to invent a story, etc. → obs.
1788 — CANT to tell merry old stories → Sc.
..L18 — BANG BANAGHER to tell fabulous, fantastic tales → sl., orig. Irish
..L18 — BANG WATTLE GUM to tell fabulous, fantastic tales → sl., orig. Irish
..L18 — BEAT BANAGHAN to tell fabulous, fantastic tales → sl., orig. Irish
..L18 — BEAT BANNAGHER to tell fabulous, fantastic tales → sl., orig. Irish
1812 — SPIN A YARN to tell a story, usually a long one; to pitch a tale; to tell lies → orig. nautical sl.
1812 — YARN to tell a story, to tell tales, probably implausible or far-fetched ones → UK
1819 — UNFOLD A TALE to relate a tale; to unravel a story
1847 — RAME to talk nonsense; to rave; to exaggerate, to tell tall stories or lies → Sc.
1847 — RAVE to rake up a story against anyone → Eng. dial.
1853 — MUNCHAUSEN to tell extravagantly untruthful pseudo-autobiographical stories; to recount a story with extravagant exaggeration
1876 — RAISE THE WIND to create a rumour; to make up stories → sl.
1893 — EMPTY THE BAG to tell the whole story; to tell or disclose the whole truth; to wind up an argument or discussion
1893 — THROW THE HATCHET to exaggerate; to tell fabulous stories or lies
1898 — BEAT THE DEVIL ROUND THE GOOSEBERRY BUSH to tell a long story without much point → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 — THREEN — THRENE to tell ghost stories or superstitious tales → Sc.
1900 — PITCH A FAIRY to tell a ‘tall story’ → Aust. sl.
1900 — TELL DILDRAMS to tell strange tales or improbably stories → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
..20C — GO INTO ONE’S DANCE to ‘tell a line’ → Amer. sl.
1902 — PITCH A FAIRY to tell a ‘tall story’ → sl.
1905 — TALE to gossip; to chatter; to tell a tale → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1911 — BELLWAVER to tell a story incoherently → Sc. (Bk.)
1916 — CHEW THE FAT to spin a yarn
1929 — ARL to tell improbable stories; to prevaricate; to weave a fictitious tale → Sc.
1929 — RAVEL to tell a story, etc. volubly; to pour out in words → Sc.
1933 — SPIN A FANNY to tell a deceitful story → sl.
1940 — TALE-TELL to tell stories → Amer. dial.
1955 — FLY A KITE to tell a tall story → Aust. sl.
2000 — CHUCK A WOBBLY to tell a dubious story → Aust. sl.