noun, feminine/koˈtora/plural: cotorras
small parrot; magpie; chatterbox; an unmarried woman past the normal marrying age according to social traditions; persuasive or flattering talk used to convince or deceive someone; smooth talk, patter.
“No me de cotorra, yo ando con lo mío.” — Don’t try to smooth-talk me; I’m sticking with my people.
Synonyms: solterona
Simplification from cotorrera, from cotarrera, from cotarro, from coto, from Latin cautus (“defended”).