[see -IST.]
1. One who excels in conversation; a (good) talker.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., II. 209. As a Colloquialist … Johnson has scarcely a rival.
1834. Tait’s Mag., I. 205/2. That their interviews were employed in the prosy manner suggested by the lovely colloquialist.
2. One who uses colloquialisms.
1821. New Monthly Mag., I. 553. All this, as the colloquialists say, is very well for a joke.
