Jump to content

chatterbox

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

[edit]

From chatter +‎ box.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈtʃæ.tə(ɹ)ˌbɒks/
    • (UK) /ˈtʃæ.təˌbɒks/
    • (US) /ˈtʃæt.əɹ-/, /ˈtʃæ.dəɹˌbɑks/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)bɒks
  • Hyphenation: chat‧ter‧box

Noun

[edit]

chatterbox (plural chatterboxes)

  1. (informal) One who chats or talks to excess.
    • 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times[1]:
      [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. A cootie catcher (children's fortune-telling device).
  3. (computing) Synonym of chatterbot
  4. The orchid Epipactis gigantea.

Synonyms

[edit]

Translations

[edit]