chatterer

plural chatterers

1. A person who chatters; a chatterbox.

   Yes, I am a chatterer, indeed, to interrupt you so often, Monsieur.

   1845, Marie Joseph Eugène Sue, The Mysteries of Paris

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   “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,[…]!”

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

   Indeed the difficulty was to get him to stop talking, for, like all squirrels, he was a chatterer.

   1951, C. S. Lewis, chapter 6, in Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998

2. datedAny of several passerine birds, mostly from South America; especially the cotingas.

   Why is the variegated chatterer of South America also called the bell-bird?

   1832, John Timbs, Knowledge for the People

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   The flight of the Chatterer bears much resemblance to that of the starling.

   1846, Henry Leonard Meyer, Coloured illustrations of British birds and their eggs

   In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker[,] tanager, bush-shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days' active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.

   1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 63