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chatterbox

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/

noun

Etymology: From chatter + box.

  1. 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.

  2. Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
  3. Synonym of chatterbot.
  4. The orchid Epipactis gigantea.