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talker

noun
/ˈtɔːkə/UK/ˈtɔkɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.

  1. inherited from talkere

Definitions

  1. A person who talks, especially one who gives a speech, or is loquacious or garrulous.

    • What this country needs is a smooth talker.
    • That guy's a real talker.
    • Returning TED talker Sherry Turkle, an author and academic, says that giving lectures about how lonely the Internet is making people has made her and her audiences even lonelier.

  2. Any creature or machine that talks.

    • Some parrots are vociferous talkers.

  3. A talk show

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. A talk-show host.

    2. An all-talk radio station.

    3. A popular topic of conversation.

      • The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.

    4. A talking point.

    5. A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant…

      A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.

    6. Mouth.

    7. A table talker or shelf-talker.

    8. An augmentative and alternative communication device.

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Derived

codetalker, code talker, double talker, fast-talker, nontalker, shelf-talker, sleeptalker, small-talker, smooth talker, straight talker, sweet talker, sweet-talker, table talker, trash talker

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for talker. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA