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 

• CHATTERER (noun)

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)