Yarners

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A group of individuals who spin tales or engage in storytelling, often weaving narratives with creativity and imagination
2. Players in the act of narrating experiences or creating fictional accounts, often highlighting their creativity
3. Those who engage in the art of telling stories, often sharing personal anecdotes or crafting elaborate fables

Etymology: "Yarners" is the plural of "yarner," formed from "yarn" with the suffix "-er," which marks a person who does or is associated with something. The base noun "yarn" is the older and more interesting part of the story: it originally meant spun thread or a fibre to be woven, and only later came to mean a long story told at length. That shift from the textile to the tale is what makes the word work, since a yarner is literally one who spins, the same image that gave us "spinning a yarn." The "-er" ending is plain and productive, attached to countless nouns for makers, workers and talkers, so the formation itself needs little explanation. What the word adds is the image of weaving a tale from thread, which is why this particular group of storytellers sounds so vivid.

Synonyms: spinners, storytellers

Antonyms: listeners, quiet people