chatterern.
/ˈtʃatərə/ 1. One who chatters; an idle and petty talker, prater, babbler, tattler, prattler.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] > talkative person
chaterestrea1250
jangler1303
babbler1366
blabbererc1375
jangleressc1386
talkerc1386
clatterer1388
cacklera1400
languager1436
carperc1440
mamblerc1450
praterc1500
jackdaw?1520
chewet1546
flibbertigibbet1549
clatterfart1552
patterer1552
piec1557
long tongue?1562
prattler1567
piet1574
twattler1577
brawler1581
nimble-chops1581
pratepie1582
roita1585
whittera1585
full-mouth1589
interprater1591
chatterer1592
pianet1594
bablatrice1595
parakeet1598
Bow-bell cockney1600
prattle-basket1602
bagpipe1603
worder1606
babliaminy1608
chougha1616
gabbler1624
blatterer1627
magpie1632
prate-apace1636
rattlea1637
clack1640
blateroon1647
overtalker1654
prate-roast1671
prattle-box1671
babelard1678
twattle-basket1688
mouth1699
tongue-pad1699
chatterista1704
rattler1709
morologist1727
chatterbox1774
palaverer1788
gabber1792
whitter-whatter1805
slangwhanger1807
nash-gab1816
pump1823
windbag1827
big mouth1834
gasbag1841
chattermag1844
tattle-monger1848
rattletrap1850
gasser1855
mouth almighty1864
clucker1869
talky-talky1869
gabster1870
loudmouth1870
tonguester1871
palaverista1873
mag1876
jawsmith1887
spieler1894
twitterer1895
yabbler1901
wordster1904
poofter1916
blatherer1920
ear-bender1922
burbler1923
woofer1934
ear-basher1944
motormouth1955
yacker1960
yammerer1978
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1592 in R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christian Woman (new ed.) i. xvi. (R.) They ment they were bablers and chatterers.
1693 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis (new ed.) 193 A babbler, prater, chatterer or jangler; a man more full of words than wit.
1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. I (ed. 3) 29 Mere London Divines..chatterers in bookseller's shops.
1881 G. Smith Lect. & Ess. 161 A voluble and empty chatterer.
1884 J. Parker Larger Ministry 51 A chatterer of other-world phrases.
2. The name of birds of the family Ampelidæ; esp. the Bohemian Chatterer or Waxwing ( Ampelis garrula); in North America the Cedar-bird or Chatterer of Carolina ( A. carolinensis or cedrorum).
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > genus Bombycilla (waxwing)
chatterer1731
waxwing1817
swallow-chatterer1837
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > genus Bombycilla (waxwing) > bombycilla cedrorum (cedar-bird)
chatterer1731
cedar-bird1791
cherry-bird1869
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > non-arboreal (larks, etc.) > [noun] > family Ptilogonatidae > genus Bombycilla (waxwing) > bombycilla garrula (Bohemian waxwing)
Bohemian chatterer1678
silk-tail1686
chatterer1731
waxen chatterer1797
Bohemian waxwing1816
1731 C. Mortimer in Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 431 Garrulus Carolinensis, the Chatterer.
1768 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) II. 508 The Chatterer visits this kingdom at very uncertain times.
1863 Spring Lapl. 279 There is no northern bird whose breeding habits have been shrouded in such mystery as the waxwing chatterer.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. iv. 119 I saw here, for the first time the sky-blue Chatterer (Ampelis cotinga)..it is a dull, quiet bird.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 211 The Grey-crowned Babbler is known also as the..chatterer.
1963 Austral. Encycl. I. 385/1 Babblers..commonly known as catbirds (or caties), chatterers, happy families [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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