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