chatterer

English

chatterer (plural chatterers)

A person who chatters; a chatterbox.
- 1845, Marie Joseph Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris:
  Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
  “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […] the chlorotic squatters on huge yachts, the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosus, […]!”
- 1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998:
  Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer.
Any of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.
- 1832, John Timbs, Knowledge for the People:
  Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?
- 1846, Henry Leonard Meyer, Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs:
  The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.

chatterbox — see chatterbox

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