talker
(ˈtɔːkə(r))
[f. talk v. + -er1.]
One who talks or is given to talking; a speaker, a conversationalist; a talkative person.
| c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶304 Eke if..he be a talker of ydel wordes of folye or vileynye. 1470–85 Malory Arthur x. lvi. 508 The meryest knyghte..and the maddest talker. 1648 Milton Observ. Art. Peace Wks. 1851 IV. 564 The overworne objection of every triviall Talker. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome i. 15 Great Talkers should always be mistrusted. 1815 Jane Austen Emma xli, I am rather a talker; and now and then I have let a thing escape me which I should not. 1861 Craik Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 248 Bolingbroke..was one of the most brilliant orators and talkers. |
b. Comb., as talker-down, one who talks down; so talker-out; talker-seer, a seer who is also a talker.
| 1833 Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poet. Wks. 1889 I. 205 The talker-down Of scorn by scorn. 1884 Gosse in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 784 Such later talker-seers as Coleridge, De Quincey, and Carlyle. 1901 Daily Chron. 22 May 7/7 Mr. Banbury, the professional talker out of the House. |