3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
talker
noun: someone who expresses in language; someone who talks
(especially someone who delivers a public speech or
someone especially garrulous); "the speaker at
commencement"; "an utterer of useful maxims" [syn: {speaker},
{utterer}, {verbalizer}, {verbaliser}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Talker \Talk"er\, noun
1. One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power
of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.
There probably were never four talkers more
admirable in four different ways than Johnson,
Burke, Beauclerk, and Garrick. --Macaulay.
2. A loquacious person, male or female; a prattler; a
babbler; also, a boaster; a braggart; -- used in contempt
or reproach. --Jer. Taylor.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "talker":
blatherskite, blowhard, blusterer, chatterbox, collocutor,
colloquialist, conversational partner, conversationalist,
converser, debater, declaimer, demagogue, dialogist, discourser,
gasbag, haranguer, interlocutor, interlocutress, interlocutrice,
interlocutrix, jawsmith, keynoter, lecturer, orator, palaverer,
panelist, parleyer, patterer, public speaker, rabble-rouser,
ranter, sayer, show-off, speaker, speecher, speechifier,
speechmaker, spellbinder, spieler, spokesman, spokeswoman, spouter,
swaggerer, tub-thumper, utterer, windbag
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