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CHATTERER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chatterer mean?
• CHATTERER (noun)
The noun CHATTERER has 2 senses:
1. an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
2. passerine bird of New World tropics
Familiarity information: CHATTERER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
babbler; chatterbox; chatterer; magpie; prater; spouter
Hypernyms ("chatterer" is a kind of...):
speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))
Derivation:
chatter (speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly)
chatter (make noise as if chattering away)
chatter (talk socially without exchanging too much information)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Passerine bird of New World tropics
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
chatterer; cotinga
Hypernyms ("chatterer" is a kind of...):
flycatcher; New World flycatcher; tyrant bird; tyrant flycatcher (large American birds that characteristically catch insects on the wing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chatterer"):
cock of the rock; Rupicola rupicola (tropical bird of northern South America the male having brilliant red or orange plumage and an erectile disklike crest)
cock of the rock; Rupicola peruviana (bird of the Andes similar to Rupicola rupicola)
bellbird (any of several tropical American birds of the genus Procnias having a bell-like call)
Cephalopterus ornatus; umbrella bird (black tropical American bird having a large overhanging crest and long feathered wattle)
Holonyms ("chatterer" is a member of...):
genus Cotinga (type genus of the Cotingidae: cotingas)
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