talker
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English
Etymology
From Middle English talkere, equivalent to talk + -er.
Pronunciation
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːkə(ɹ)
Noun
talker (plural talkers)
- 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.
- 2012 May 5, Henry Alford, “Future TED Talks”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 9 May 2012:
- 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.
- 2019 January 16, Eric Levenson, “Alfred Newman, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, dies at 94”, in CNN:
- At Iwo Jima, code talkers passed over 800 error-free messages in a 48-hour period, according to the Congressional law honoring the program.
- Any creature or machine that talks.
- Some parrots are vociferous talkers.
- (informal, media) A talk show
- (informal, media) A talk-show host.
- (informal, media) An all-talk radio station.
- (informal, media) A popular topic of conversation.
- The royal engagement is likely to be a top talker right through the wedding.
- (informal, politics) A talking point.
- (Internet) A stripped-down version of a MUD which is designed for talking, predating instant messengers; a kind of early chat room.
- (informal) Mouth.
- 2009, Thomas Savage, Annie Proulx, The Power of the Dog: A Novel, →ISBN:
- Although on Sundays when the men had finished feeding cattle, the rest of the afternoon was free still they weren't comfortable in the bunkhouse if George was abroad; he had a queer authority without even knowing it, an ability to upset you, maybe because he so seldom opened his talker and his silence made you look in upon yourself, on the guilt you always knew was there.
- (marketing) A table talker or shelf-talker.
- An augmentative and alternative communication device.
