Definition of "tellin" []

• A marine bivalve mollusc, of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where it siphons detritus. (noun)

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• "Not even a phone call tellin me I was going to get nothin."
• "` Honour bright, 'says I, ` if ye don't call tellin' my captain splittin '.'"
• "You've got a cinch-nobody to think of but your own precious self -- an 'a lot of young hoodlums makin' eyes at you an 'tellin' you how beautiful your eyes are."