Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A great talker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A great talker.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A great
talker ; achatterbox .
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Examples
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She says, her neighbours there have so little sense of what a refined lady of the town is, that she who was a celebrated wit in London, is in that dull part of the world in so little esteem that they call her in their base style a tongue-pad.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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"Palmer," said old Raoul, with his broken-toned voice, cracked by many a hollo, "I am wont to leave the business of tale-bearing to my wife Gillian, who will tongue-pad it with any shrew in
The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801
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