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tonguester|ˈtʌŋstə(r)|
[f. tongue n. + -ster.]
A talkative person; a great talker; a gossip.
1871Tennyson Last Tourn. 392 The tonguesters of the court she had not heard. 1877― Harold v. i. 47 The simple, silent, selfless man Is worth a world of tonguesters. 1899Q. Rev. Apr. 478 Two such formidable tonguesters as George Borrow and Thomas Carlyle!
attrib.1885Punch 11 Apr. 169/1 Thee, Great heart, whose silent grandeur seems to shame Our tonguester time. 1889Tennyson To Mary Boyle ix, Lowly minds were madden'd to the height By tonguester tricks. |