smooth talker

See also: smooth-talker

English

Alternative forms

• smooth-talker

Noun

smooth talker (plural smooth talkers)

1. A person who smooth talks.
   • 2016 April 7, Steve Jackson, Smooth Talker: Trail Of Death, WildBlue Press, →ISBN:

     The three local men didn't recognize him, but he seemed to be a real smooth talker with a Southern drawl of some sort.

   • 2019 November 23, Scarlett Kennedy, How To Psychoanalyze Someone, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 64:

     So today I remembered the smooth talkers in my life. I don't have any more smooth talkers in my life. Because they piss me off. They piss me off because they don't understand HOW to smooth talk. The proper way. There is an art form.

   • 2024 May 4, Simon Tisdall, “Giorgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen, the double act that is steering the EU ever rightwards”, in The Observer‎^[1], →ISSN:

     In France, Le Pen’s RN, spearheaded by Jordan Bardella, a handsome smooth-talker like Macron, only younger, has a huge lead.

Related terms

• smooth talk

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: lipevä puhuja
• French: beau parleur (fr) m
• German: Schwätzer (de) m, Schwätzerin (de) f
• Polish: bajerant m, bajerantka f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: hablista m or f

Further reading

• “smooth-talker”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “smooth talker”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.