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talker

Pronunciation:  t'okur

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  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"
 
 Synonyms: speaker, utterer, verbaliser, verbalizer
 
 See Also: alliterator, articulator, asker, babbler, caller, caller-up, chatterbox, chatterer, conversationalist, dictator, drawler, driveller, ejaculator, enquirer, growler, informant, inquirer, jabberer, lecturer, lisper, mentioner, mumbler, mutterer, narrator, orator, phoner, prater, prattler, public speaker, querier, questioner, ranter, raver, reciter, rhetorician, schmoozer, speechifier, speechmaker, spouter, stammerer, storyteller, stutterer, talking head, telephoner, teller, venter, vociferator, voicer, wailer, whisperer, witness, witnesser

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Talk"er\, n.
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.

 

 

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