chatterbox
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
noun
Etymology: From chatter + box.
- One who chats or talks to excess.
“[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.”
- Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
- Synonym of chatterbot.
- The orchid Epipactis gigantea.