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talker|ˈtɔːkə(r)|
[f. talk v. + -er1.]
One who talks or is given to talking; a speaker, a conversationalist; a talkative person.
c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋304 Eke if..he be a talker of ydel wordes of folye or vileynye. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. lvi. 508 The meryest knyghte..and the maddest talker. 1648Milton Observ. Art. Peace Wks. 1851 IV. 564 The overworne objection of every triviall Talker. 1701W. Wotton Hist. Rome i. 15 Great Talkers should always be mistrusted. 1815Jane Austen Emma xli, I am rather a talker; and now and then I have let a thing escape me which I should not. 1861Craik 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.
1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poet. Wks. 1889 I. 205 The talker-down Of scorn by scorn. 1884Gosse in Fortn. Rev. Dec. 784 Such later talker-seers as Coleridge, De Quincey, and Carlyle. 1901Daily Chron. 22 May 7/7 Mr. Banbury, the professional talker out of the House. |