Chatterbox
//ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks// noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker wordnet
- 3 Synonym of cootie catcher (“children's fortune-telling device”).
- 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 Synonym of chatterbot.
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- 6 The orchid Epipactis gigantea.
Antonyms
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More examples"Sven was so verbose that his friends resorted to calling him a chatterbox."
Etymology
From chatter + box.
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