talker
Americannoun
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a person who speaks, especially one who speaks readily or too much.
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a person who speaks in a specified way (used in combination).
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"Mo is not a big talker, but obviously he's a leader by example. So it's those types of things I'm 100% going to miss," said Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
The character, a compulsive talker whose social manner is as subtle as a leaf blower, poses a tremendous acting challenge, being as intensely annoying as she is mysteriously alluring.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2025
He’s a jocular talker who will frequently tap your arm or squeeze your shoulder for emphasis.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Our credulity would snap if Mescal’s Shakespeare was the slick talker that his early biographer John Aubrey described as “very good company, of a very redie and pleasant smoothe Witt.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025
Using our code, we could send battlefield messages that no one but another Navajo code talker could understand.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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