chatterer n an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker n passerine bird of New World tropics Usage(s) Seven years ago, John Henry Faulk was making $36,000 a year as a radio and television monologuist and comic chatterer. Today, as a Hearst drawing card and a radio chatterer on the side, he earns $12,000 a year. Synonym(s) babbler prater chatterbox magpie spouter cotinga