Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An extremely talkative person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who talks incessantly: applied chiefly to children.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. an obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker
- n. 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
Examples
“As for her calling me "chatterbox" -- she always calls me that when she's been doing all the talking.”
“As for her calling me "chatterbox" -- she always calls me that when _she's_ been doing all the talking.”
“Harold started keeping his own counsel more than before, and he was never what you might call a chatterbox.”
“I said scarcely a word, and yet I am called a chatterbox, and punished -- before company, too!”
“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.”
“Imagine, just for a moment, what it might be like to give the "chatterbox" in your head a rest!!!”
“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 :.”
“Am I the only one who really dislikes the term "chatterbox"?”
“The more interesting observation of Althouse is not the "chatterbox" one.”
“For example, a person might be a "chatterbox" which means they like chit chat about the topic on the network while another type of influencer might be a”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chatterbox’.
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Talk Talk
Words for Talking
( open list, randomness )squawk, gab, chatter, chitchat, blab, prattle, blather, discuss, hector, plead, cajole, harangue and 200 more...
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Gapeseeds and Muckworms - Compound De...
A list of compound derogatory names such as gapeseed, muckworm and lickspittle. Your one-word contributions to this list are welcome.
See sionnach's list derogatory terms I should use ...gapeseed, muckworm, lickspittle, makeweight, bootlicker, backscratcher, apple-polisher, backslapper, brownnoser, rakeshame, yesman, freeloader and 293 more...
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WF - nominal compounds (figurative)
An extensive list I have been working on for quite some time. Feel free to add more of the kind if you miss any.
brainstorming, upside, downside, goldplating, bikeshedding, mudslinging, downgrading, headhunter, streamlining, mainstreaming, gerrymandering, frontloading and 503 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
depict, delegation, daughter, Dardanus, Dardanian, Dardan, Hellespont, cupbearer, Crete, Cretan, Creon, copulate and 713 more...
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open list: the art of talking
Words that describe people who are identified by a specific variety of speech. This list was inspired by the discussion at anecdotalist.
anecdotalist, conversationalist, fabulist, mythomaniac, speechifier, gaffeur, bullshit artist, preacher, witticist, raconteur, storyteller, liar and 29 more...
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EN-HU - fun and challenge to translate
Highly descriptive coinages (either in EN or HU) which are difficult to translate between the two languages. If - as a simultaneous interpreter - you get them right on the move, you deserve to be p...
backpfeifengesicht, a wise head on yo..., bad hair day, big cheese, blame shift, cherry picking, intellectual heav..., lack nunchi, schlimazl, cash cow, cherry boy, ass munch and 65 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
ax, ex, ox, soapbox, smallpox, six, sex, sax, rex, pressbox, climax, chickenpox and 208 more...
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simple & useful9
heartrendingly, rancorous, ferocity, earful, dispiriting, dandification, ascribing, monotonic, smattering, yesteryear, sword of damocles, blubbering and 104 more...
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Words next
patrimony, cacophony, fearsome, coruscating, coruscating, coruscating, dolomite, dolorous, transdermal, chatty cathy, chatterbox, incessantly and 249 more...
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C is for Caddyshack
My C Words
cavalcade, charlie browniest, cakewalk, clambake, caboose, cadaver, caddyshack, cadillac, cahoots, calaboose, cannonball, canopy and 145 more...
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Gossip Column
What's the scuttlebutt? Inspired by an OUP blog post.
clacket, chatterbox, tonguester, prattle-basket, whitter-whatter, gabble, chelp, chirm, tittle-tattle, bribble-babble, snatter, psilology and 35 more...
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My Least Favourite Words
morose, neurotic, paperwork, ruminate, litigation, gloom, depression, despair, dictator, politics, procrastination, reorganisation and 72 more...
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dudu's Words
inevitable, gravel, scorched, oblivious, doze off, grate, gaunt, meritocracy, forensic accountants, proselytize, prolixity, prune and 48 more...
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Soap Box
call box, dialog box, voice box, boom box, soap box, press box, ballot box, scorebox, black box, chatterbox, letterbox, smegmatic box and 26 more...
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Box It Up
abox, bandbox, beatbox, boxboard, boxcar, boxful, boxlike, boxy, breadbox, cashbox, chatterbox, firebox and 30 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for chatterbox.
gulyasrobi HU for "chatterbox" is "locsi-fecsi" / "dumagep" / "pletykafeszek" Aug 1, 2012