English
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Etymology
chatter + box
Noun
chatterbox (plural chatterboxes )
( 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.
A cootie catcher ( children's fortune-telling device ) .
Synonyms
Translations
one who chats or talks to excess
Arabic: ثَرْثَار (ar) ( ṯarṯār )
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Bulgarian: бъбрица (bg) f ( bǎbrica ) , кречетало (bg) n ( krečetalo )
Catalan: xerraire (ca) m or f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 話匣子 / 话匣子 (zh) ( huàxiázi ) , 话匣子 (zh) ( huàxiázi ) , 喋喋不休 者 ( diédiébùxiū-zhě ) , 話癆 / 话痨 (zh) ( huàláo ) , 话痨 (zh) ( huàláo )
Dutch: kletskous (nl) m or f
Esperanto: babilemulo
Finnish: lörppö (fi) , lörpöttelijä (fi) , hölösuu (fi)
French: moulin à paroles (fr) m
Galician: charlatán m
German: Dampfplauderer (de) m , Plaudertasche (de) f , Quasselstrippe (de) f , Schwätzer (de) m , Schwätzerin (de) f
Alemannic German: Chlepfe f
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Greek: πολυλογάς (el) m ( polylogás )
Hungarian: locsi-fecsi (hu) , szélkelep
Irish: cabaire m
Italian: chiacchierone m , ciancione m , linguacciuto (it) m
Japanese: おしゃべり (ja) ( oshaberi )
Kazakh: сумақай ( sumaqai )
Latin: lingulāca f
Maori: kohe , komarero , pane kākā , ngutu kotete
Norman: bailleux d'goule m , caqu'teux m
Occitan: barjacaire , charraire
Portuguese: tagarela (pt) m or f , falador (pt) m
Russian: болту́н (ru) m ( boltún ) , болту́шка (ru) f ( boltúška )
Spanish: loro (es) m , lora f , charlatán (es) m , cotorra (es) f
Turkish: şapır
Walloon: tchafiåd (wa) m , tchafete (wa) f ( man and woman ) , berdeleu (wa) m , Mareye-tarame (wa) f ( man and woman )