chatterbox

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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.

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  1. noun An extremely talkative person.

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  • “Not much of a chatterbox, are you?” Lottie had to bite her lip to keep from laughing aloud. —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm, but her brief, touching turn as a chatterbox with a tumor on her tongue got me wondering why producers from all the major networks aren't lighting up her agent's phone line with offers to make her a series regular on something - —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • 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
  • He looks pale enough; and that abominable chatterbox, Evgenie Pavlovitch, monopolizes the whole of the conversation. —  The Idiot
  • I'll admit that I did use to be a chatterbox, when I was little, but even Holland says I'm not, now I didn't mean to call you a chatterbox," explained Joyce. —  The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
 

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/ˈtʃætərbɑks/
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