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Chatterbox

//ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who chats or talks to excess. informal

    "[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. 2
    an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker wordnet
  3. 3
    Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
  4. 4
    orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf wordnet
  5. 5
    Synonym of chatterbot.
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  1. 6
    The orchid Epipactis gigantea.

Etymology

From chatter + box.

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