Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extremely talkative person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who talks incessantly: applied chiefly to children.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun informal One who
chats ortalks to excess (especially a child).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
- noun 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
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Examples
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As for her calling me "chatterbox" -- she always calls me that when she's been doing all the talking.
Mary Marie 1920
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As for her calling me "chatterbox" -- she always calls me that when _she's_ been doing all the talking.
Mary Marie 1894
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Harold started keeping his own counsel more than before, and he was never what you might call a chatterbox.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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Harold started keeping his own counsel more than before, and he was never what you might call a chatterbox.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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I said scarcely a word, and yet I am called a chatterbox, and punished -- before company, too!
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I am known as a chatterbox, as someone who has so many words tumbling out of her brain that her mouth sometimes cannot keep up.
Dutch Blitz 2009
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I am known as a chatterbox, as someone who has so many words tumbling out of her brain that her mouth sometimes cannot keep up.
Dutch Blitz 2009
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Imagine, just for a moment, what it might be like to give the "chatterbox" in your head a rest!!!
Janice Taylor: Stress Relief: Quick Video Fix: 21 Ways to Reboot, Recharge, Refresh 2010
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See, this is life telling you that you are a good person and you do deserve nice things, no matter how much your inner 'chatterbox' will try to convince you otherwise :.
Gifts from others, gifts to self, presents! Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Am I the only one who really dislikes the term "chatterbox"?
"Are you concerned that you are rehabilitating outdated gender stereotypes that portray women as chatterboxes ruled by female hormones?" Ann Althouse 2006
gulyasrobi commented on the word chatterbox
HU for "chatterbox" is "locsi-fecsi" / "dumagep" / "pletykafeszek"
August 1, 2012