(slang) to tattle; to tell on

coward, timid person

to fear; to be afraid; to be scared (mostly used with the third person)

(dialect, Hakata) teacher, professor

an elder / a scholar / a teacher or a professor / sensei (Japanese martial arts teacher) / sir, a polite form of address to teachers, doctors, etc.

a title used after the name of teachers, doctors, lawyers, or certain other professionals

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

(と〜) thinking that […] (with the next clause explaining that the truth is contrary to expectations)